Example sentences of "[pron] to [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He introduced himself to all the furniture , saying how nice it was to meet a particular table , or how nice the covering was on a chair . |
| 2 | He scored the only goal of the game and immediately endeared himself to half the city 's fans . |
| 3 | Kylie wanted to personally say thank you to all the kids who have bought her records and for it to be worthwhile you need to have kids within twenty feet of her . |
| 4 | A big thank you to all the schools who helped , St David 's , Sacred Heart , Redcar , Kings Manor , Beverly School for the Deaf , St Paulinus , St Josephs , St Thomas More , St Bernadettes , St Augustine 's and Newlands . |
| 5 | I 'll take you to all the places I loved as a girl . |
| 6 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 7 | For a moment Nicholas , too , saw the future as something splendid and bright ; a fertile island , well run and blooming , and owing nothing to all the nations that warred round about it . |
| 8 | The same lover had made palm trees out of Edwardian ostrich feathers and tied them to all the newel posts of the four-storey staircase . |
| 9 | This relates them to all the other uses of blend and modal dare seen above , dare itself being conceived as a mere possibility , thereby negating or questioning its existence as a reality constituting a before-position with respect to the event performed due to the daring ( that expressed by the infinitive ) . |
| 10 | While the EC was debating its approach to the problems of Eastern Europe the president-elect of another distressed part of the world was nearing the end of a pre-inaugural tour which took him to all the major capitals . |
| 11 | He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches . |
| 12 | Naturally , in view of the political interest of Lord Milton and the Duke of Argyll , John Main was not left to languish in the state of promoted unemployment to which Colonel Haldane 's enmity had consigned him , but although they were able to secure a port appointment for Main which brought him a regular salary , it was at Bo'ness , on the Lothian shore of the river Forth and directly under they eye of Haldane 's ally , Collector Middleton , who sent the unfortunate Main ‘ on every drudgery piece of business to different places to put him to all the expence & trouble the Collector can devise ’ . |
| 13 | Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee . |
| 14 | My father has been buying Margaret a designer wardrobe and escorting her to all the best restaurants and clubs and Suzie has taken up surf-boarding . |
| 15 | You know , that in 1825 he bought an island on the Niagara River in America and offered it to all the Jews in the world to make a Jewish state called Ararat . |
| 16 | Basically , they wanted to write a press release about me and distribute it to all the local newspapers , Radio Cornwall , Television South West and the BBC regional news programme , Spotlight . |
| 17 | Yes I think we , we started doing that originally because er the people from the Epping group said they did that every month did n't they , they , they issued a press release and sent it to all the local papers , that seems to be the way of doing it . |
| 18 | Whatever the best is , the Profitboss communicates it to all the people in his organization , using keyline statements to get the message of " the best " across in simple terms . |
| 19 | Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ? |
| 20 | There was a man way back at the beginnin' of this century made an elixir of it , sent it to all the crowned heads of Europe , the Pope , too . |
| 21 | And you 've got to say , that , we 'll restrict this , right , restrict it to all the negative numbers . |
| 22 | The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . " |
| 23 | and the milkman would come and everything else , and now it 's all central distribution , and erm , meat , you know , do central distribution , for the whole thing , and erm , they , all the companies that used to deliver to us individually , they deliver to the central depot , and they , in turn , distribute it to all the houses , |
| 24 | The family connection linked the enterprise to the pre-war Die-hard revolt , and Nesta Webster — the principal author of the Boswell Publishing Company — linked it to both the National Citizens Union and the BF . |
| 25 | He then behaved somewhat unctuously , showing it to half the Shadow Cabinet in order to get their advice as to whether or not he ought to worry Baldwin with it . |