Example sentences of "to [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Jim she 's never opened her mouth and said a single thing yet but er |
| 2 | The expedition which the king led to Scotland in the winter of 1341–2 was unpopular : according to Murimuth he was attended only ‘ by a few knights ’ , and Arundel , Huntingdon , and five other earls declined the invitation to serve . |
| 3 | sufficient to exhale it : |
| 4 | As a Muslim woman from Jhelum explained to me , in Islam a man can marry four times but according to Islam it is his duty to look after each of his wives and treat them honourably . |
| 5 | But the first time she 'd spoken to Colin he 'd told her there was a hi-tech at the manufacturer 's end , and the second time the shop had been closed . |
| 6 | One ‘ hangover ridden ’ shortness of response , or a snappy turn-off to views you do n't like , causes infinite harm . |
| 7 | To join them send an SAE — indicating on it the number of stickers required — to Lock It ! |
| 8 | And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left . |
| 9 | According to Taylor it is the working-class element of the crowd , and not football 's new , middle-class supporters , who have the most developed knowledge of , and commitment to , the club ( i.e. they possess a true ‘ soccer consciousness ’ ) . |
| 10 | When I moved on to Agra I found that the appearance of the buildings there had changed noticeably . |
| 11 | When George Orwell went to Sheffield he visited the area and described the conditions of houses in Wallace Street . |
| 12 | Since we spoke to Adaku she has moved away . |
| 13 | Once Sheila was securely set towards the civil service as well , as if out of weakness or guilt Moran began courting her with vague , tentative offers ; if she were desperate to go to university they could still look into ways of how it could be managed and they would try to manage it somehow no matter how hard it was . |
| 14 | My inclination to reject law as a possible course was incomprehensible to many , and while I was waiting to go to university I was constantly challenged about this . |
| 15 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 16 | In the summer before I go away to university I get a job as an au pair in London . |
| 17 | She was thinking instead that once she got to university she would never need to see him again . |
| 18 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
| 19 | His father owned a record shop in Baltimore and before he went to university he had become the buyer for the shop , a job which provided an unlikely education . |
| 20 | Sparkling red or white grape juice can make an innocuous , though rather sweet , non-alcoholic drink , but an alternative to champagne it is not . |
| 21 | But when that biographer is Peter Ackroyd , there will be a catch : Ackroyd 's special way of paying homage to a writer is to pastiche him , as he did in his fictional versions of Wilde and Chatterton . |
| 22 | Being called away to prayer she clutched the book to her bosom and having forbidden Lambarde to fall upon his knees before her , concluded , " Farewell good and honest Lambarde " . |
| 23 | In nature , Universal Energy is known to the Yogis as ‘ Prana ’ , the breath of life ; Polynesians know it as ‘ Mana ’ , or vital force ; the Australian Aborigines term it ‘ Kurunba ’ ; to the Chinese it is ‘ Ch'i ’ ; to Germans it is ‘ Wodan ’ ; Wilhelm Reich referred to it as ‘ Orgone ’ and Christians call it ‘ Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 24 | The vocablry — you get the idea ? — was devised by a comity headed by a lectr at Astn Universty ( as this paper 's Edicayshn Editr reported on March 27 ) and seems to hav it in for vowls . |
| 25 | Spelling lists , if you want to teach from lists , which draw attention to patterns she is having trouble with , e.g. : |
| 26 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
| 27 | This includes those who are temporarily between jobs and drawing unemployment benefit to tide them over until the new job is taken up . |
| 28 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
| 29 | I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over . |
| 30 | Her husband had opened a bookshop to support her and their two children , but it was " imperative for her to work " at her old job as reader , " to tide them over for a year or two " . |