Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmaster at the school gave a talk to all the children and issued a warning to them to beware of the Rottweiler breed in particular . |
| 2 | I could hear one of the children crying and shouted to them to get on the floor . |
| 3 | How his ancestors had left the meat that Queen Victoria had sent over to them to fight in the streets rather than accept help from the English . |
| 4 | All of these factors seem to me to point to the desirability of the judgment being exercised by the local authority , with their unique knowledge of the facts , rather than by the courts . |
| 5 | You would have forfeited Tracy Castle immediately , and ‘ t would have been granted to me to hold for the King . |
| 6 | ‘ Would you kindly explain to me why you have allowed a confidential document belonging to me to fall into the hands of a junior member of my staff ? ’ |
| 7 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 8 | The significance of understanding these differences in their various material and historical forms seems to me to lie in the way they point to the differences of television 's subjectivities . |
| 9 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 10 | While writing this chapter , it occurred to me to look through the list of constellations to see in how many the five leading stars were , in order , Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta and Epsilon . |
| 11 | Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world . |
| 12 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
| 13 | It 's much easier for me to centralise all requests , arrange the shipping — or , in this case , give them to you to take to the island . |
| 14 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 15 | The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard . |
| 16 | If any forester do find any trespasser wandering within his liberty … within the forest … and after hue and cry made to him to stand unto the peace , will not yield himself , but flee or resist … if the forester do kill any such offender , he shall not be impeached for this felony . |
| 17 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |
| 18 | She turns her back to him to look in the mirror beside the cherrywood armoire . |
| 19 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 20 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 21 | And so happy and excited that it did not occur to her to worry about the devastating effect Paula was having on Edward . |
| 22 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 23 | An indemnity basis taxation of costs that have already been taxed on the standard basis would seem to us to lead to the conclusion that the costs of the standard basis taxation were unnecessarily and unreasonably incurred and should be disallowed on the taking of the account . |
| 24 | All these cases are distinguishable from , and indeed , inapplicable to , the present , which appears to us to fall within the general rule , that a consideration past and executed will support no other promise than such as would be implied by law . |
| 25 | That is , it is open to us to deliberate about the light that this fact throws on the person 's character ; but deliberation is not open to us when it comes to parsing the sentence . |