Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I explained to Jim his assets . |
| 2 | This can be anything from a loan of £10 to tide your sister over to her next pay cheque , to substantial gifts like giving your grandson the money for the deposit on his first house . |
| 3 | Despite the increased strength of labour , as reflected in welfare provisions and moves towards ‘ industrial democracy ’ , workers were still obliged to sell their labour power to employers whose freedom of action they might be able to limit , but certainly not control . |
| 4 | By the time he got back to Sheila his chest was heaving . |
| 5 | His father , however , did have the wit to apprentice his son to Clementi , the composer and piano maker , and so Field , in his early teens , was sent to London to study . |
| 6 | The hulking nephew of Kalv Arnason had been only a youth when King Olaf had killed his uncle Ølve at the spring feast at Sparbu and had given to Kalv his uncle 's rich widow in gratitude . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he has written , ‘ some western writers are longing for subjects provided by violent historical change , but I can assure [ them$ that we , ie , natives of hazy Eastern regions , perceive history as a curse and prefer to restore to literature its autonomy , dignity and independence from social pressures . ’ |
| 8 | He was tolerant of his brother Neil 's attempts to piggyback his way into the movies on the Connery name , and understanding of his mother 's very Scottish shame at his success ; she took to booking even her hair appointments in her maiden name . |
| 9 | Patients in one group were given Reflotron machines ( Boehringer Mannheim , Germany ) and were asked to measure their triglyceride concentrations at home , before meals and before going to bed , twice a week and to record the results in diaries . |
| 10 | He thinks some states and cities will resort to pump-priming their economies with spending on things like roads , airports and waste-management . |
| 11 | In my view racism , which should be distinguished from racial discrimination , should be restricted to discourses which group human populations into ‘ races ’ on the basis of some biological signifier — for example , ‘ stock ’ — with each ‘ race ’ being regarded as having essential characteristics or a certain essential character ( as in the phrase ‘ the British character ’ , or in attributions to ‘ races ’ of laziness , rebelliousness , or industriousness ) and where inferiorization of some ‘ races ’ may or may not be present . |
| 12 | And Murphy 's Law invariably applies : if you do n't want anybody to knock on your door — because you 're putting the kids to bed/washing your hair/making love/cooking something impossible like a souffl é/late; for just about anything/working to a deadline/just secretly reclining on the sofa with a packet of your favourite chocolate biscuits , watching Coronation Street — somebody always will . |
| 13 | In the eighteenth century educated women became more likely to breast-feed their babies . |
| 14 | PICTURES of smiling babies can no longer be used on the packaging of powdered milk for infants after the European Parliament voted yesterday for measures to encourage mothers to breast-feed their children . |
| 15 | I was saying to mum it Sally 's was ages before theirs stopped . |
| 16 | For example , in November 1939 the headmaster of Wesley Road School , Willesden , wrote to the Board , claiming that ever since they had been evacuated to Rugby his pupils had shown definite increases in height and weight growth rates . |
| 17 | As beef farmers , they are not able to get grants to setaside their land.The racing is an alternative way of making money . |
| 18 | ‘ I am going over to Stone later on to change our Mother 's accumulator . |
| 19 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 20 | They had patronised it the previous night , taking to heart its motto ( in Latin ) , ‘ drink yourself to hell ’ . |
| 21 | He was an arrogant man who thought he had only to crook his finger and she would come running . |
| 22 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 23 | It 's now up to the players to buck their ideas up and bounce back . ’ |
| 24 | It takes Taipei 's most famous daughter to buck our letting agent 's system of waiting lists like that . ’ |
| 25 | My third point is coming back to Chairman your point about the paragraph , the criterion paragraph of thirty three of P P G three , and the settlement in my view fails the first the first test , since the very city which it is supposed to relieve says that the need can be met , and I quote , within and on the edge of the urban area and villages . |
| 26 | The note to Ord 24 in The County Court Practice says that with reference to occupiers whose occupation was originally unlawful ( otherwise , seemingly , if the occupation started as lawful as with for example , a terminated service occupancy ) , then the court will normally order " possession forthwith " , but the orders issued by the court ( unless the court has fixed a date ) will simply state that the plaintiff " do recover possession " . |
| 27 | Galileo was able to outmanoeuvre his rival in the fruitless game of the invention of ad hoc devices for the protection of theories . |
| 28 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 29 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 30 | And if we do so we might call ourselves a nomadic and pastoral people of the transcendent ; and we shall be able to pasture our thoughts like the flocks of the nomads . |