Example sentences of "to the [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most brain damaged to the revellers sensed it , and the noise of the place began to die away . |
| 2 | Having secured Theodora 's obedience , however , he left it to the Archdeacon to make his wishes clear . |
| 3 | ‘ If the courts undertook to rewrite statutes this would tend to foment litigation , because it would encourage people who objected to the legislation to try their luck with the courts . ’ |
| 4 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 5 | One of the other highlights this week is a salute to George Romero ( who sent a message of thanks to the organisers urging them to ‘ Stay Scared ’ ) . |
| 6 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 7 | And so I ran to the forge to fetch him . |
| 8 | Commander Richard Compton-Hall , museum director , said that the first step in salvage was to get any party with a claim to the wreck to relinquish it to the museum . |
| 9 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 10 | The information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were . |
| 11 | Mr. Justice Taylor 's report following his inquiry into the Hillsborough stadium disaster commented on the cost of policing and stated : ’ The temptation to the clubs to leave it all to the police is stronger if they are not required to make a realistic payment for police services . ’ |
| 12 | They are introduced to the sources of Careers and Course Information ; to the options facing them on leaving School ; to applications procedures ; to interviews etc . |
| 13 | Miles called to the hunters to increase their speed . |
| 14 | The amendment to the concession makes it clear that the concession does not have that effect . |
| 15 | Rose had come to the dance to claim their place as a couple among the people in this loose , Christmas carnival . |
| 16 | They [ Catholics ] come to the church to feede their eyes , and not their soules : they are not taught , that no visible thing is to be worshipped . |
| 17 | Frightened , but believing this was only a passing sense of panic , Monika ran to the church hoping she could calm him . |
| 18 | Before the meeting they celebrated the 70th birthday of churchwarden Rosemary Paxton and to mark the occasion and her many years of service to the church presented her with a basket of flowers . |
| 19 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 20 | Paragraph 2.9 of the Code of Practice to the Act makes it clear that a person can be detained on the basis of a known history of mental illness following non-compliance with medication . |
| 21 | In addition , an area of free space may also be represented by a node , with arcs from it to the groups surrounding it . |
| 22 | In the latter case , one 's evidence is likely to be discounted by both sides simultaneously , which can be frustrating to the researcher to find himself to be ‘ the pig in the middle ’ . |
| 23 | In the 1980s we are still sufficiently close to the Occupation to make it difficult to assess some of the longer term significances of its reforms . |
| 24 | She looked up to the ceiling to find him , she looked in spaces too small to hold a bird . |
| 25 | The place names given to the villages show which ones were started by the Danes . |
| 26 | Sources close to the duke insisted his decision was not about money . |
| 27 | O , the Fox went out on a chilly night and he prayed to the moon to give him light … |
| 28 | It has been no more severely shocked than many of the specimens picked up by the Apollo astronauts who journeyed to the Moon to find them . |
| 29 | In 1988 the committee came up with reasonably simple minimum standards ( adopted or exceeded by banks in most developed countries by the end of last year ) which sought to match a bank 's capital to the credit risks it runs . |
| 30 | To add to this confusion the steep-angled grass above is riddled with puffin burrows ; later in our stay we found that attempts to move tripods closer to the edge put us in real danger of disappearing downwards , compete with the odd half-acre of apparently stable cliff top . |