Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will credit amounts deposited by use of your Card to whichever account you select but if the amount actually received by us differs from that stated by you , your account will be debited or credited ( as the case may be ) with the amount of the difference . |
| 2 | ALLAN McNISH received a late night boost to his Formula One hopes last night when he was summoned by Benetton-Ford team owner , Tom Walkinshaw , to test-drive the team 's new Grand Prix car at Silverstone today . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's not here , ’ he told her with a mocking ring to his tone which showed he knew exactly what she was thinking . |
| 4 | They must be able to show measurable improvements in the quality of their services over the past two years , and customer satisfaction , and they must have in hand or plan to introduce at least one innovative enhancement to their services which entails no additional cost to the taxpayer or consumer . |
| 5 | Joinville reported the king 's reply to his counsellors who opposed the treaty with England of 1259 : ‘ it seems to me that what I give him [ Henry III ] I am employing well , because he was not my man , and now he enters into my homage ’ . |
| 6 | He pushed a cup of tea to his daughter who rejected it in favour of cold milk . |
| 7 | ‘ I am delighted that Britain has come into line with all other major Western democracies and given the vote to its citizens who live and work abroad , ’ Sir James said . |
| 8 | King : A young pretender to my crown you mean ? |
| 9 | The sequence in hand was apparently quite simple : we met up with another yacht and sailed in company , then came across a fishing boat to whose skipper I shouted , ‘ Have you any fish to spare ? ’ |
| 10 | Over the entrance to our guildhall we have an effigy of the head of Cromwell , pinned back by his ears by two large nails . |
| 11 | He is shown to have a warm and sensitive side to his character which serves to increase its appeal . |
| 12 | The bricks are laid on the sand to whatever pattern you fancy . |
| 13 | With a bow to his guests he went . |
| 14 | She had a spiteful twist to her tongue which drove other women away . |
| 15 | His tone was pleasantly idle , but there was a twist to his mouth which did n't escape Merrill . |
| 16 | Committed to the cult of the workers as ‘ disinterested ’ opponents of militarism , they generally remained silent about the degree to which workers themselves had come to have a vested interest in the arms race . |
| 17 | In psychoanalytic theory the attachment of a boy to his mother which leads to emulation of the father also leads to rivalry . |
| 18 | There was a subtle lemon-musk fragrance to his skin which made her head swim . |
| 19 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 20 | If we do pay attention to his thought we feel we are listening to a public orator of unimpeachably orthodox Christian principles , a Poet Laureate in training — he did not in fact attain this honour until the reign of Queen Victoria in 1843 . |
| 21 | At the subsequent press conference held high in the stadium stand , Foster hushed even the most hardened of hacks by dedicating his gold medal to his mother who had died two years earlier , along with other members of his family , in a car crash . |
| 22 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 23 | There is another question which arises from all this training ; are the Banks ceasing to look upon staff as being capable of individual reaction to whatever difficulty they encounter ? |
| 24 | We are pleased to introduce a new service free of charge to our members who insure with Homecover which offers a free 24 hour home emergency service . |
| 25 | Very rarely do we distribute demo 's of commercial games , but as a service to our readers we do make one or two exceptions . |
| 26 | In such cases the agent 's liability is to make good the detriment thus caused to the person to whose rights he consented . |
| 27 | Now I 'd like you to home in in relationship to whatever target you 've got there erm you can relate or you need n't , but that five thousand pound is the start point for fifteen percent bonuses . |
| 28 | Little wonder then that during the build-up to her wedding she invited her former teacher Wendy Mitchell and pianist Lily Snipp to Buckingham Palace so that she could have dancing lessons . |
| 29 | Bauen was the birthplace of the composer of the Swiss national anthem to whose memory there stands a small monument in the village . |
| 30 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |