Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used to cycle to them to save money . |
| 2 | However , exports to non-E.E.C. countries in their currencies will still be subject to fluctuating exchange rates and Northern Ireland exporters will need to continue using the various mechanisms available to them to minimise exchange risks . |
| 3 | " recommend earnestly to them to purchase Timber , that may answer the purpose , from the wreck of the Brig stranded on Duich Bay , if she is to be broken up … " |
| 4 | The problems connected with these are inseparable , because of the variety of local conditions , which led to them taking place at different times in various parts of the kingdom . |
| 5 | The proposal by the President of the Commission , Jacques Delors , in Strasbourg on 17 January 1990 that the EC should treat the six East European countries as if they were backward regions of the Community and extend structural support to them brought gasps of disbelief from every government except West Germany 's . |
| 6 | He said that had been a concession to them to allow families to stay together . |
| 7 | It does n't make a lot of sense to them to sell margarine without a name on the label . |
| 8 | ( a ) Children in need Section 20(1) requires every local authority : to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who appears to them to require accommodation as a result of : ( a ) there being no person who has parental responsibility for him ; ( b ) his being lost or having been abandoned ; or ( c ) the person who has been caring for him being prevented ( whether or not permanently , and for whatever reason ) from providing him with suitable accommodation or care . |
| 9 | An ’ I 'm aware of them so much now that I 'd do anyfink in my power to do somefink to them to get self-satisfaction . |
| 10 | The job analysts within E L T , are Neil Butterfield , John Dennis , Anne and Claire Nichol , and they are , in fact , if you like , a sort of second or I mean you can go to them to get advice about how to fill in the job description rather than go to your manager , or if if if you have some dispute or disagreement or whatever the job analysts can can can help in that . |
| 11 | If we have to agree to others performing tasks in exchange for the tasks we perform , we at the same time grant licences to them to become expert and to use their expertise on our behalf . |
| 12 | SCHOOLGIRLS are being told that the door is open to them to pursue careers in the once traditionally male dominated fields of science and engineering . |
| 13 | Is this because of their anti-arrhythmic effect , or due to them combating heart failure ? |
| 14 | Remembering , and using people 's names when talking to them pays dividends in personal relationships . |
| 15 | Always hopeful , I have in the past approached many players with a view to them joining Athletico . |
| 16 | Teacher ( in role ) goes to them to seek advice : " Melric , our magician , has lost all his magic ; and we do n't know how to do anything . |
| 17 | The doors of the classrooms along it had handwritten cards drawing-pinned to them saying things like ‘ Course 21B : Italian ’ or ‘ Over 60s Metalworking ’ and one that said ‘ Blue Tit Patrol ’ pinned high enough up to avoid any graffiti . |
| 18 | The Federation of Small Businesses is asking local authorities to use the discretion available to them to offer rates relief to businesses found to be suffering hardship . |
| 19 | It was , Mr Furbank comments , ‘ the inspiration of some of his most original and powerful writing ’ : the novels , Rameau 's Nephew and Jacques the Fatalist , neither published in his own lifetime ; also his art criticism , which seems to me to anticipate Proust . |
| 20 | This seems to me to suit Prokofiev 's idiom very well and Béroff 's intelligent virtuosity is a constant source of delight , as is Masur 's accompaniment , fully committed but also notable for careful attention to detail . |
| 21 | Just leave it to me said Mr Grover I think between us and with the help of some of our friends in the market we shall be able to give everybody a Christmas to remember . |
| 22 | Novelists who think their writing an instrument of politics seem to me to degrade writing and foolishly exalt politics . |
| 23 | All of a sudden this woman downs her hoe and runs up to me demanding money . |
| 24 | On 17 August he wrote to me suggesting dates . |
| 25 | She would listen to me reading Coleridge , black hair falling over her sweet face , red boots at the side of the bed . |
| 26 | And those New England mountains seemed to me to give evidence of a human success so meagre and transitory as to be more desperate than the desert . ’ |
| 27 | At that moment , the determination came to me to kill Victor Frankenstein as well as his creature . |
| 28 | The Catholic intelligentsia had been highly critical of the way the government had conducted itself : Blackfriars , the Oxford Dominican journal , had taken a line which I found especially sympathetic ; and D'Arcy , to whom I had sent my article , wrote to me expressing approval of my stand . |
| 29 | And the other little boy was born there but I used to visit him , I see him on the district and it always came back to me fancy Humphrey 's the only one Should n't mention name really . |
| 30 | What seems to me to need attention is … [ the ] movement of psychoanalysis away from content ( pre-Oedipal or otherwise ) to a concept of sexuality as caught up in the register of demand and desire . |