Example sentences of "to [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A presentation to Jim and his wife Frances was made by Charles Winter , the Bank 's Vice Chairman at a ceremony in ‘ 42 ’ . |
| 2 | Perhaps the clearest example of Marxism being embraced as a substitute for a rejected Catholicism is offered by César Vallejo , whose poetry is constructed around biblical images both before and after his conversion to Communism and whose proletarian heroes ‘ appear as new Christs ’ urging redemption through collective love ( Vallejo : 1970 , p. 69 ) . |
| 3 | In the middle of the medley he 'll go from bass to guitar and I 'll be playing bass pedals when he 's swapping ! ’ |
| 4 | Jean-Claude must have told M. Chaillot that , because of a bereavement , he was not up to contracts and their clauses , and discussions relating to money . |
| 5 | No those 15 trucks and trailers will move from Assab to Desai and they should arrive in Dessi this morning , and then in Desai they 'll have to be transferred to er a certain amount of food to smaller trucks , and we think that the first group of trucks will be just perhaps 5 trucks that will really test the road from Desai up to Waldia in the area controlled by the rebels to see if there really is a safe passage agreement and to see if er there are bridges out on that road or whether there are land mines left on the road , to see if it is actually possible to move food across those lines . |
| 6 | My sisters dressed me up in their dresses and paraded me down the road and we listened to Van and I learned to love Van . |
| 7 | Another would sometimes go back to work er if their son or dau well mainly the sons went to university and they needed the extra money for that . |
| 8 | She has always had this dream that I would make it to university and she will be devastated if I do n't continue , but the way I am feeling now , I do n't want to . |
| 9 | This autumn the last of my children is off to university and I 'm wondering if it 's realistic to consider entering the job market , since it 's 29 years since I worked . |
| 10 | We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road . |
| 11 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 12 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 13 | Everyone agreed that this was a sensible decision , with the exception of growers from the more outlying districts , in particular the Midi , who had a vested interest in selling to Champagne and who would certainly be excluded . |
| 14 | They are the people who can refer clients on to solicitors and it is highly likely that the ‘ Advisory Liaison Service ’ and the proposed liaison officers could have played a significant part in making and fostering those contacts . |
| 15 | I 'm delighted to comment , though , subject to contract and everything else , I would n't give any any assurances . |
| 16 | I have heard from Prudential Property Services with details of your proposed purchase of the above property for £52,000 subject to Contract and I expect that I shall be receiving the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors in the course of the next post but perhaps you will kindly telephone me and let me know whether you wish me to proceed with the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and the Local search with the East Herts District Council . |
| 17 | Even if it landed on time , I would have the four-hour journey to Hull and it was unlikely that I would make it to the funeral . |
| 18 | Their attitudes to teaching and their conceptions of the effects of classroom activities are taken into account . |
| 19 | Assistance can be sought through community police departments , who will usually provide a speaker to talk to employers and their employees about all aspects of risk . |
| 20 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |
| 21 | He had seen what they had done to Patrick and he knew the man was lying . |
| 22 | And then of course your sugar beet went direct to Colwick and it used to go by horse and cart in those days . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ We 'll take our case to Parliament and we 're examining the legality of imposing market conditions which do n't apply elsewhere in the European Community . |
| 24 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 25 | Following a statement to Parliament and his Woolwich speech in March and April 1965 , Crosland set up an informal planning group under the Minister of State , Reg Prentice , ‘ to discuss the future pattern of advanced work in the further education system ’ and ‘ the related question of the best arrangements for the government of such colleges ’ . |
| 26 | The life cycle is similar to Ostertagia and there is penetration of the gastric glands with resultant nodule formation . |
| 27 | This so-called ‘ one law for all ’ means one thing when it 's applied to gorgios and something else when Romanies are involved . |
| 28 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 29 | ‘ The monument to Steiner and his men the villagers of Studley Constable had hidden under the tombstone in the churchyard . ’ |
| 30 | It had happened to me once before , the discovery of that hidden memorial to Steiner and his men in the churchyard at Studley Constable . |