Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [to-vb] [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 | He said that had been a concession to them to allow families to stay together . |
| 5 | It does n't make a lot of sense to them to sell margarine without a name on the label . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Novelists who think their writing an instrument of politics seem to me to degrade writing and foolishly exalt politics . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | At that moment , the determination came to me to kill Victor Frankenstein as well as his creature . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It seems strange to me to see cattle out in a field in mid-winter . |
| 20 | ‘ Every time I play I feel fitter and it 's up to me to put things in order . |
| 21 | It had never really occurred to me to put things in those terms but I can see what he meant and to an extent he was partly right . |
| 22 | As I have already intimated , Hirschi 's control perspective seems to me to invite expansion along classical lines , rather than narrowing . |
| 23 | Barlow said : ‘ It is up to me to keep Neil out of the side and prove the manager wrong . |
| 24 | But this approach seems to me to contain difficulties of its own , not the least being that each object of knowledge is knowable in more than one of the different ways . |
| 25 | Anyway , when I saw he was n't going to do anything about it , I figured it was up to me to make friends with Ibrahim and find out what he was doing . |
| 26 | This seems to me to make parody and irony worth understanding more precisely . |
| 27 | Surprisingly they agreed and , to show their compliance , said they would leave it up to me to tell Trevor Proby that he was sacked . |
| 28 | I was just filling my bowl in the lounge cos somebody said to me to get water in the lounge in a bowl see if it could help me with my breathing , you know . |
| 29 | ‘ It never occurred to me to expect payment , ’ she repeated . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's up to me to convince Everton to give me a new contract , ’ he said . |