Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruling means that a lot of people , most of them women , are unlikely to be compensated for serious psychological damage done to them at very young ages . ’ |
| 2 | Finally , there will be a few situations in which local authorities have been almost entirely the innovators , in which they have sought to promote local acts through Parliament or in which they have interpreted general powers given to them in quite novel ways . |
| 3 | Allison had three spells at City , returning to them after apparently unbreachable rifts like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 4 | I used to have my hair shaved , now I let it grow — people react to me in very different ways when I have hair and when I do n't ’ . |
| 5 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 6 | As Henry signs the new treaty at the French court , the camera moves in to a close-up as he recalls the faces of the people who have been friends to him in more dissolute days , and have now followed him into battle . |
| 7 | He spoke to her in very precise Greek , and I heard my own name and the name of the school . |
| 8 | An understanding of this renders it much easier to comprehend the no evidence doctrine and the reasons for the exceptions made to it in more recent years . |
| 9 | To make sure that these components met the quality standards needed by the main plant , the company despatched , at its own expense , what they described to us with only mild exaggeration as ‘ a regiment of engineers ’ from Detroit , some of whom stayed down in Brazil for months advising the subcontractors on how to meet the company 's standards . |