Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One contained the tomb of one of Bosnia 's most famous sons , Serhad Pasha Sokolovic , a Christian convert to Islam who became Suleiman the Magnificent 's grand vizier . |
| 2 | In the summer before I go away to university I get a job as an au pair in London . |
| 3 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 4 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
| 5 | His father owned a record shop in Baltimore and before he went to university he had become the buyer for the shop , a job which provided an unlikely education . |
| 6 | The result for n = 1 is found by letting n tend to unity which shows that the second term in the expression is while the first term is zero . |
| 7 | Being called away to prayer she clutched the book to her bosom and having forbidden Lambarde to fall upon his knees before her , concluded , " Farewell good and honest Lambarde " . |
| 8 | Adsorb — Adsorption is the process by which a substance such as charcoal binds other substances onto its internal or external surfaces — as opposed to absorption which means soaking-up . |
| 9 | The initial decision at congress to enter the formal political arena was taken to defend the trading interests of cooperation against incursions by the state , and when sponsored candidates were elected to parliament they tended to work within the brief by monitoring legislation . |
| 10 | But in 1760 George II died , and his grandson George III had a dispute with his ministers about the King 's Speech to Parliament which revealed a new attitude . |
| 11 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 12 | A parliamentary committee appointed six " non-elected MPs " to Parliament which convened on Sept. 14 . |
| 13 | ( b ) Ministers are accountable to Parliament which has the right to question the minister on any aspect of the work of the department , even regarding events prior to his taking office . |
| 14 | The Scots rebelled and Charles I had to raise more money for an army to quell the uprising and for funds he had to resort to Parliament who demanded the removal of both Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Stafford . |
| 15 | In Mr Wakil 's first speech to Parliament he referred to the Five Year plan , in which an expansion of broadcasting was projected . |
| 16 | ‘ I can see it 's wonderful for the East Germans , and if it does n't lead to reunification I 've no objection to it . |
| 17 | That 's why she 's asked me to do it , but like I said to mum you know , I 'm not gon na say to her , oh yeah I 'll do it whenever you want , I 'll say like they 're gon na do this extra course on Wednesday nights and she said , like unless she could get a baby-sitter she could n't go which is the reason I 'm doing it . |
| 18 | I went home and reported this to Mum who explained to me that the fire meant that a lot of people would now be out of work until the Laundry was rebuilt . |
| 19 | out and never said ta ta to anyone , I mean I ran over and I said to mum he 's got a funny on , what do you think ? |
| 20 | I said to mum I said works out that I get it |
| 21 | I said to mum I think |
| 22 | money comes to money I say |
| 23 | As with the other relationships considered here , there are clear gender differences , certainly in relation to support which passes between in-laws . |
| 24 | JOHN THAW has taken his role in the television version of A Life In Provence so much to heart he has bought a home in the idyllic French region . |
| 25 | From tip to toe it gives almost 900 ′/270m; of verticality . |
| 26 | Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne . |
| 27 | It is a companion to SayIt which builds voice-activated macros . |
| 28 | to harp it Does look rather |
| 29 | Following treatment , calves should be moved to pasture which has not been grazed by cattle in the same year . |
| 30 | Wherever the enclosure of the open arable fields resulted in conversion to pasture we find this regular field-pattern of straight hedges and squarish fields of roughly the same size . |