Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 2 | And that it 's up to them to do the research , to listen to advisers , parents , other students and so on , but at the end of the day it 's them that 's got to go and do the course . |
| 3 | Investigating their claims and describing how governments reacted to them form the theme of most of this book . |
| 4 | 193 the court held that , when exercising the power granted to them to define the detailed rules for the utilisation of their quotas , the member states could determine which vessels in their fishing fleets would be allowed to fish against their national quotas , provided that the criteria employed were compatible with Community law . |
| 5 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 6 | If someone else is annoying us either deliberately or unconsciously , then we have to talk to them to explain the effect they are having on us . |
| 7 | my Lord er , to only just final conclusions my Lord the first conclusion is that nothing in community law , nothing in the directives in the insurance companies act can be pointed to by which grants powers to them to regulate the insurance markets . |
| 8 | While no one must know the extent to which she had been alarmed , she had no objection to them knowing the cause . |
| 9 | ‘ The ordinary people supported me before I was made WBC champion and I now owe it to them to let the public see me , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The new business groups were part of an imperial market and often this was far too important to them to risk the fragmentation of nationalism . |
| 11 | Members who had no other form of ‘ social security ’ available to them desired the benefits . |
| 12 | Accusations that have some truth to them make the most watertight defences of all . |
| 13 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 14 | But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management . |
| 15 | The county council has since planted trees on that piece of land which has stopped gipsies from camping there but led to them using the verge instead . |
| 16 | It is up to them to make the first move . ’ |
| 17 | Yet to them comes the promise that they are not worse off , but if anything better . |
| 18 | Next to them stood the second rank of drinkers , ‘ troops ’ of the gangs , not yet vicious enough to challenge the leaders or even each other , unless they were mob-handed . |
| 19 | The mayoress appealed to them to drop the case and this is now being considered by the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 20 | Cardinal Pironio , from the Pontifical Council for the Laity , wrote to them to convey the good wishes of the Holy Father . |
| 21 | A because the work has n't been done What I 'm trying to do is er to say give a balanced approach which seems to me to reflect the County Council 's view that er you really ca n't do it on the basis of a a a quick subjective assessment , it really needs to be the result of a l of a detailed body of work . |
| 22 | ‘ The world has changed , ’ Lagerfeld says , turning to me to explain the unlikely combination of a Chanel jacket and cycling shorts . |
| 23 | But I 'm unconvinced by the pause Marriner inserts between the main section and trio , which seems to me to lessen the effect of the oboes ' pivotal , punning Gs that lead into the trio 's C major . |
| 24 | They included Gilly Miles , who had a lovely personality and manner and to me had the greatest potential of them all . |
| 25 | it seems to me to perform the functions which we were er seeking through through the proposed Policy three . |
| 26 | I 'm sure the council do a lot of good work and it should n't fall to me to propagate the views of the monopolistic , right-wing press . |
| 27 | I found myself lying to her , although my lies seemed to me to represent the truth as soon as I was out of Aisha 's house . |
| 28 | I feel no qualms about taking sides against these contributions , nearly all of which seem to me to disregard the Criminal Law Revision Committee Report and to neglect to analyse the meaning in its context of the word ‘ appropriate . ’ |
| 29 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 30 | It 's now up to me to use the opportunity to breakthrough . ’ |