Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika .
2 And if you 're in the middle of a supermarket , you can talk to them right in the middle of a supermarket .
3 Indeed , as in social history generally , the rights are likely to be given to them partly through the students pressing for them themselves .
4 Both Morse and Lewis stood , rather warily , beside the car as Downes began to fiddle ( once more ) with a hearing-aid one which looked to them suspiciously like the model that had earlier given rise to such piercing oscillation .
5 I pay tribute to them tonight for the work that they have undertaken in an attempt to keep us aware of what is happening out there .
6 Up to the passing of the new Act , the loan societies recovered money owed to them either by a summons to a Court of Requests or to a Police Court .
7 When we talk about exemptions , the Government refer to them simply from a basis of ideology .
8 We find it helpful to number modes so that we can refer to them simply in the form νsubn ; .
9 It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date !
10 Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two .
11 ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King .
12 as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives .
13 Get a claim form from your council and return it to them together with the receipt or bill .
14 So , in fact you 're not going to do anything to them much in the way of discouraging them from removing their forest , by stopping them exporting small amounts of .
15 At one time his patents even tried giving him mineral water shipped to them specially from a mine , believing their son could be allergic to the fluoride in tap water .
16 10.3 The Academic Parties shall , notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement , have a licence to use for the purpose of further internal research and teaching work all the foreground technical information that they themselves have generated together with such of the background and results as is communicated to them hereunder by the other Parties and is necessary for such use of their own result , but such use shall be in conformity with the confidentiality conditions of this Agreement .
17 This seems to them more like a building site than a City office .
18 But no cries came to them there on the terrace , the darkness lit by the moon , the bright stars spread like a net across a sky that never lost its blueness , the scented tapers burning between the statuary of the amorous god .
19 They would phone people all over the UK , and read to them verbatim from a script worded as follows : " Hello .
20 They back-chatted Mr Griffith to such an extent that he reversed a penalty award to them close to the posts .
21 The chemicals that make up living things are all based on chains of carbon atoms , with hydrogen atoms attached to them all along the chain — such molecules are known as hydrocarbons .
22 But , secondly , it seems to me plain as a pikestaff that the building society , in parting with its money , relied on the transfer .
23 Sharon 's father talked to me both of the building and the killing of a community .
24 ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure .
25 He takes a long draw on the J , while I sit there thinking , Oh shit , then he hands the number back to me again with a big grin on his face .
26 However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds .
27 He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it 's answering the telephone .
28 However , in the present context , Mr. Philipson 's arguments seem to me completely beside the point .
29 It was following immediately upon this that , on 10 September , Leslie wrote to me excitedly about a small enemy landing — a fact that was finally denied , and explained by Attlee in Parliament only in 1946 .
30 When you have done so please sign it and return it to me immediately in the pre-paid envelope provided .
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