Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
| 2 | ‘ You have explained me to myself , Harry , ’ he said slowly . |
| 3 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 4 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 5 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 6 | It has also exposed them to explosions and radioactivity . |
| 7 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 8 | I was officially the gardener , but had come to fulfil also roles of secretary , comptroller of household , translator , interpreter , and stool-pigeon ( which they had always intended me to be ) . |
| 9 | They had all learned from him ; she and Lisa still spoke , stylistically , as he had taught them to . |
| 10 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 11 | In recent months their flagrantly communal slogans ( 'Say it with pride — I am a Hindu' ) have propelled them to significant gains in municipal and other elections . |
| 12 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 13 | The Commander has assigned me to you . |
| 14 | She sits and watches , and they do not even realize that she has provoked them to it . |
| 15 | And she has assigned them to me . |
| 16 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 17 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 18 | Speaking from the governor 's mansion in Little Rock , Arkansas , local boy Bill , said : ‘ I accept tonight the responsibility you have given me to be the leader of this , the greatest country in human history . ’ |
| 19 | Uncle Walter had given them to him , Philip . |
| 20 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 21 | I 've just given them to you as background , and because you 're lovely . ’ |
| 22 | Some boy give me a single red rose and I 'd say , What you done with the other four , given them to your other girls ? |
| 23 | I 've given them to that solicitor that |
| 24 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
| 25 | Er I 've done the slips and given them to Margaret to be . |
| 26 | After his death Mona had found the keys on the floor in the secretary 's room and given them to Maureen . |
| 27 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 28 | His father would have given them to Oxfam , or to a jumble sale . |
| 29 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 30 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |