Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 2 | He had just broken the news to them about Philpott . |
| 3 | Similarly fixated is the dying man , known to them as Singapore Sling , who — in flashback — arrives at the house looking for his missing lover . |
| 4 | Josephus , who was present at the siege , refers to them as Sicarii . |
| 5 | Erm Colonel has supported very actively the current Three-Ninetieth Missile Wing like he supported us and he is respectfully known to them as Uncle Joe . |
| 6 | Write to them at Brook House , 2-16 Torrington Place , London , WC1E 7HN . |
| 7 | The legatine visitation would provide Offa with an opportunity to acquaint the pope with his plans and the thinking behind them , but there can be no question about the opposition to them at Canterbury . |
| 8 | Right : Identify callers before opening the door to them with Friedland 's Password doorphone . |
| 9 | Hasted writes : " Egberth King of Kent with consent of his nobles and princes , gave ten ploughlands in Hailing , with all appurtenances , together with fields , woods , meadows , marshes , fishings , huntings and fowlings belonging to them to Bishop Doran and the Church of Rochester with the denberies in the Weald , Bixle , Speldhurst , Meredaen , Thaerbe , Eastan , Rustewellee and Teppennyse , witnessed by King Heaberth and Archbishop Jaenbert . " |
| 10 | He liked to show parties of visitors round the house and to talk to them of Oswald , or Hild , or Cosin , or Lightfoot . |
| 11 | ‘ But that is a quite separate issue from the Alternative Services book which is an alternative way of enabling congregations who have not been well versed in Cranmerian language nevertheless to use a language which does reflect their longings and their prayers and can speak to them of God . ’ |
| 12 | All men stand under God 's just wrath ; but the elect have his love opened to them through Jesus . |
| 13 | Yet few audit firms have chosen to protect themselves by becoming limited companies , an option that has been open to them since October last year . |
| 14 | I know how my sick friends enjoyed hearing about my day , and appreciated the prayer from my little scroll , when I took Our Lord to them on Sunday morning . |
| 15 | Borough council officers are looking at several ways of helping disabled motorists to shop in the town once High Row and Skinnergate become off bounds to them on March 29 . |
| 16 | Of course , they were doing something , standing around on comers in groups for example , but as far as the boys were concerned nothing memorable seems to happen to them on Saturday night . |
| 17 | Local dentists called the meeting after learning ministers wanted to reduce the 25pc subsidies paid to them for NHS patients . |
| 18 | If they could get to them before Scott |
| 19 | ‘ Constable Bewman here pointed out that each guest had their plate handed to them by Edith but I ca n't see how that would give the murderer any scope . ’ |
| 20 | The crest was granted to them by King Robert I of Scotland , when one of the family turned away a charging bull , threatening the King 's life . |
| 21 | Pragna Patel , also a member of SBS , says : ‘ Muslims are n't bound to a single identity given to them by Kalim Siddiqui and the Muslim Parliament . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The Welsh Highland ( 1964 ) company is sorry to learn that the Ffestiniog Trust has rejected the very reasonable compromise offered to them by Gwynedd County Council , based on the suggestion in our brochure : The Way Forward . |
| 23 | The Jews ' special characteristics derive from the religion which was given to them by Moses , which stressed one God who was invisible and would not allow images of Himself to be made for worship . |
| 24 | It took the Venetians until 1420 to win control of all the territory promised to them by Ladislas , who in fact never realised his ambition to wear the crown of Hungary . |
| 25 | Instead of outrage at last week 's blocking of the succession of Stipe Mesic , a Croat , as Yugoslavia 's new president , officials in Zagreb smile at the propaganda coup handed to them by Serb politicians in Belgrade . |
| 26 | It is usually argued that the managers do not acquire their Newco shares pursuant to a right conferred on them or an opportunity offered to them by Newco by virtue of their employment ( see s77 Finance Act 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Among an interesting agenda of issues , we considered the Government 's stated position on many of the recommendations made by the Edwards Committee and the response to them by CCW and the Countryside Commission . |
| 28 | That so much has survived , despite Lanfranc 's hostility , is due first to the tenacity of the surviving monks , and then to the encouragement given to them by Anselm . |
| 29 | Looking back into the past , people are eager for an explanation to be given to them by Thames and I do think that people do n't feel that 's what they 've had so far . |
| 30 | The information comes first : Common threads are visible in the way all three designers handle the raw material supplied to them by BP . |