Example sentences of "to [pers pn] and [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I straightened my back , and I walked down the stairs to my parents and I said goodbye to them and to the servants lined up on the front steps . |
| 2 | These and many other factors are of great importance to practising physicians , but to do justice to them and to the controversies which they provoked is beyond the purpose of this book . |
| 3 | The major concern is to ensure that they have a realistic chance of completing a course : this is clearly of special importance both to them and to the University . |
| 4 | The quality of the relationships is greatly affected by the approach to them and to the task adopted by the project manager . |
| 5 | However , first larger jennies and then the application of power to them and to the mules took spinning from the cottage through the workshop to the factory where , as we have seen , it became a male employment . |
| 6 | ‘ It is now clearly ascertained that the present chartered body will not accept the terms which is understood have been proposed to them and for the information of the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College I shall feel much obliged by your informing me whether or not a Charter will be granted to them . ’ |
| 7 | Right , but what I 'm trying to say is that you can dance them to them and by the way when are you thinking of having it done |
| 8 | Inscribed Bibles were presented to them and among the recipients were several members of Edenderry . |
| 9 | I should be grateful if you would , in accordance with the confidentiality undertaking , now return the Information memorandum to me and at the same time confirm in writing that you and your advisers have destroyed any further copies of the documentation . |
| 10 | I always make the statement at the time — as I did last Thursday — based on the information available to me and on the right process for the House for the following week . |
| 11 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 12 | It looks as if you 've done a very good turn to me and to a lot of other people this afternoon . |
| 13 | Now when those people in Parliament are absent , by their silence , they may be there , you do n't always see 'em , you then get a bit annoyed , but I tell you , you get bloody annoyed when they walk past you , which happened to me and to the regional delegates at Lancashire North West Labour Party , I wo n't name who they are , but they did n't even acknowledge us . |
| 14 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
| 15 | Of course what is going on in the Bolsover area is a matter of great concern to the hon. Gentleman , as it is to me and to the whole House . |
| 16 | That has brought us back again to the conundrum which you posed to me and in the face of which I had to express my helplessness — namely , how do we make the silent majority unsilent since that is by definition impossible ? |
| 17 | Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice ! |
| 18 | On one occasion a man sat next to me and after a preliminary bit of footsie , he invited me to slip my hand into his pants . |
| 19 | Just who are these people , and how do they relate to you and to the rest of the agency ? |
| 20 | I have given notice of my point of order to you and to the Secretary of State for Education and Science , who is in his place . |
| 21 | In consideration of your disclosing to us on your own behalf [ and on behalf of the vendors ] the confidential information listed in the memorandum issued by [ ] dated [ ] concerning the proposed disposal of [ the share capital ] / [ business ] of Prospective Target , we undertake [ both to you and to the vendors ] that we shall : |
| 22 | In consideration of your disclosing to us on your own behalf [ and on behalf of the vendors ] the confidential information listed in the memorandum issued by [ ] dated [ ] concerning the proposed disposal of [ the share capital ] / [ business ] of Prospective Target , we undertake [ both to you and to the vendors ] that we shall : |
| 23 | And so in conclusion I looking at it and the exhibitions we 've made to you and to the county in the course of the consultation draft is that this county does not need this policy and that it is in fact an insidious and repressive kind of policy that it contrary to national planning guidance and should not be included in the alterations . |
| 24 | Yet somebody had sprayed those two words on the wall , somebody who knew what they would mean to him and to no other occupant of Breakspear College . |
| 25 | Five years later , the Reverend Adam Buddle ( c.1660–1715 ) , Reader at Gray 's Inn and an enthusiastic botanist , after whom Buddleja is named , welcomed an offer from Richardson to send seeds and roots from Yorkshire to him and to the Chelsea Garden ‘ which is now putting into very good order … we design to cultivate all the rare English plants we can get to grow there . ’ |
| 26 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |
| 27 | First , the hon. Gentleman has suggested that the report , which he says has been leaked , is accurate , but I suggest to him and to the House that it is not . |
| 28 | Does he agree that the fact that so many parts of the country are queueing up for ESA status is a tribute to him and to the usefulness of such areas ? |
| 29 | I have had many pleasant discussions with him , but I must say to him and to the House in all firmness that to ask us to talk about justice as politicians is to go down a very dangerous road . |
| 30 | Despite that he has managed to keep a group of people around him who have a loyalty both to him and to the company . ’ |