Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 for each vertex u F , D[u] is the length of a shortest path from s to u which , apart from u , passes only through vertices in F.
2 Well you know what he 's trying to do , he 's trying up the claim so when back , he 's still gon na get the amount that he wants so he said t to Jim something about , he is n't paying the insurance I said you 're joking !
3 says to Jim what if they get through do you know what for Wembley
4 According to Jim she 's never opened her mouth and said a single thing yet but er
5 ‘ I explained to Jim his assets .
6 By May 17 the unrest had spread to Kaduna itself .
7 The expedition which the king led to Scotland in the winter of 1341–2 was unpopular : according to Murimuth he was attended only ‘ by a few knights ’ , and Arundel , Huntingdon , and five other earls declined the invitation to serve .
8 In the hills that side a long valley on the way to Sæbol there is another emergency hut .
9 ‘ Last year we went to Jumieges which is a magnificent and vast ruin between Rouen and le Havre on the Seine .
10 It is not Nizan 's allegiance to communism which must be interpreted in the light of his resignation from the party .
11 sufficient to exhale it :
12 As a Muslim woman from Jhelum explained to me , in Islam a man can marry four times but according to Islam it is his duty to look after each of his wives and treat them honourably .
13 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 .
14 Where these signs are not obvious , subtler discriminations can be made : Quebecois who refuse to understand anglophones who talk in a Canadian accent , will respond to anglophones who talk with a British or US intonation , as Flemings who claim not to understand French spoken with a Belgian accent , understand French French .
15 In a rejoinder to Darling 's criticisms , Kirk ( 1978 ) , a member of the committee , points out the specific references in the report to the weakness of Hirst 's approach , and the addition of appeals to the social usefulness of educational activities ( something foreign to Hirst who was concerned primarily with intrinsic worth ) as evidence of an attempt to look beyond a cognitive based curriculum .
16 But the first time she 'd spoken to Colin he 'd told her there was a hi-tech at the manufacturer 's end , and the second time the shop had been closed .
17 In this account , Lévi-Strauss uses the ‘ hero 's journey ’ to self-analysis in the field as a means of achieving or engendering knowledge ( see also Caplan 1988 ) ; emphasizing that it is the journey to self-awareness itself , and not the arrival , which is the most important aspect of the rite de passage .
18 Highest score of the day went to Norbury who hit 228–5 at Hartford , Pete Holland scoring 116 .
19 ‘ So let us come to Kemp himself .
20 The new gondola lift whisks you high into the mountains , to views which are reputed to be the finest in the Tyrol .
21 The moral authority of law gets a foothold in the idea that it is rational to give special consideration to views which result from a process of impartial , informed and capable reflection , and this not simply because this process helps us to know more precisely what will promote independently ascertained moral goals but also because it is liable to result in superior judgements about what goals we ought to pursue ( Campbell , 1971 ) .
22 One ‘ hangover ridden ’ shortness of response , or a snappy turn-off to views you do n't like , causes infinite harm .
23 Section 56 deals with transfers of works in electronic form and the position with respect to copies which are not transferred along with the original software .
24 To join them send an SAE — indicating on it the number of stickers required — to Lock It !
25 Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself .
26 No polls are necessary to reveal a trend of scandal : Democrats do to mistresses what the Republicans do to slush funds .
27 It represents a major synthesis in what has become an increasingly complex field and , because the approach is founded so solidly on comparative nutrition , should be of interest to biologists who work on wild and domesticated herbivores .
28 And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left .
29 According to Taylor it is the working-class element of the crowd , and not football 's new , middle-class supporters , who have the most developed knowledge of , and commitment to , the club ( i.e. they possess a true ‘ soccer consciousness ’ ) .
30 When I moved on to Agra I found that the appearance of the buildings there had changed noticeably .
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