Example sentences of "to [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jim , the chap who lives next door to them came over the other night to collect a pound from me as my contribution to the er , sign on the lamppost saying that this is a watch neighbourhood watch area , now it 's |
| 2 | The people of the tribe or village agree to them participating in their lives to some extent but there is no pretence that the lady from America has actually become a Polynesian native . |
| 3 | Listening to them complaining about the usual stuff ! |
| 4 | There is also now ample research to show that children whose parents listen to them reading at home tend to read better and to enjoy reading more than other children ( Topping and Wolfendale , 1985 ; see also Sheila Wolfendale 's Primary Schools and Special Needs , in the present series ) . |
| 5 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 8 | This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued . |
| 9 | Opposition to them resulted in the proposals being withdrawn . |
| 10 | You give money to them to use against Copts . |
| 11 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 12 | As far as personnel are concerned , every attempt will be made to refer to them according to skills , professions or areas of activity ( e.g. audio-visual technicians , media producers , design consultants ) , and normally the expression " educational technologist " will imply someone consciously identifying himself with the theory and methodology of the movement . |
| 13 | Many of the royal forests were granted to them to hold in fee . |
| 14 | This was utter nonsense from a communist point of view and neither Ceauşescu nor Brezhnev had any intention of abiding by the terms of the Helsinki agreement , but its value to them lay in its public announcement to the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that the West had abandoned them to their fate . |
| 15 | In Jacobs v Wessex Regional Health Authority [ 1984 ] CLY 2618 the respondents were ordered to pay the costs in any event where the plaintiff 's solicitors had written letters to them referring to the reasonableness of their request for discovery , the relevant authorities and the saving in public expense from voluntary discovery to a legally aided plaintiff . |
| 16 | She called to Hermione and Joanna and all the girls who had gone already along the paths she had rejected , called to them to wait for her and place their steady walking boots on solid earth to catch her . |
| 17 | A son born to them died in infancy ; their daughter Margaret ( ‘ Peggy ’ ) survived both and in 1776 married Nathaniel , son of Daniel Rowland [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | I could hear one of the children crying and shouted to them to get on the floor . |
| 19 | What what I did say that Halam had already objected to them going down Station Lane at Edingley which we did . |
| 20 | He has also earned the respect of the players who know that Nigel can hold the key to them returning to the side quickly . |
| 21 | Although no reference to them exists among surviving documents , it is certainly reasonable to assume that James sired children . |
| 22 | No , that 's not the case , it 's open to them to apply in any event . |
| 23 | He had talked with a plastic young couple in the Reservation Diner , listened to them enthusing about their new-found life and the dictates of their faith , but had seen the deadness in their hearts . |
| 24 | In emotions that were not her own , waves had a liquid pounding substance to them culled from the beaches of Earth 's Pacific Ocean . |
| 25 | However , the Romans took care to appease the manes wherever possible , making offerings to them known as ‘ religiousae ’ if they became troublesome , causing household disturbances or illness . |
| 26 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 27 | Steele v. Williams and Hooper v. Exeter Corporation were cited in argument , but no reference to them appears in the judgments . |
| 28 | Many cases were delegated to them to hear on their own . |
| 29 | There are many more , and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases , always produced in countless millions and ever-present , carried on the wind , ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue , a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage , to invade , debilitate , deface and even destroy an entire plant . |
| 30 | It may be that the best corrective to them arises from frequent interaction with a more benign reality . |