Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to continue with Clem 's letter — she told me Melanie went to Wales after you to try more persuasion . ’ |
| 2 | The Christian mind which he revered was then and ever after the mind of William Temple , whom Hoskyns thought to be able but superficial . |
| 3 | The worst difficulty came with his brother Frank , whom Ramsey thought to be the cleverest person he knew . |
| 4 | Alex said repressively , knowing quite well whom Donna referred to . |
| 5 | one of the two flashy men-about-town , professing intimate acquaintance with all sorts of illustrious personages ( ‘ even the Blood Royal ran in the muddy channel of their personal recollections ’ ) , whom Tigg introduces to Jonas Chuzzlewit to impress the latter with the power and glory of the fraudulent insurance company he is seeking to involve Jonas in . |
| 6 | I passed my June copy to a friend who lives in Norfolk feeling sure I would be able to replace it but without success , and I was away on holiday for the August copy . |
| 7 | The Nazis also pioneered in the field of book destruction in their self-imposed task of reducing the multi-cultural nature of German society by the elimination of that quintessentially literate people whom Stalin referred to as ‘ cosmopolitan elements ’ . |
| 8 | Artemis then saw her father standing by his favourite window , in the company of a tall dark-haired woman , whom Artemis found to be staring back at her . |
| 9 | After the success of his two philosophical titles from Thorsons we have an autobiography which Warner seems to be playing quite softly , but which may well take off . |
| 10 | Arshile Gorky , Jasper Johns , Robert Rauschenberg , Cy Twombly , Brice Marden and Roy Lichtenstein were names which Mnuchin mentioned to The Art Newspaper , a list which supports the view of those observers who believe that the contemporary art market 's revival will be led by renewed interest in the leading post-War American masters . |
| 11 | Thus the mental horizons of labourism ( by which Nairn refers to the tradition of independent working-class representation ) were severely circumscribed . |
| 12 | ‘ The mine manager showed us a gold watch which Churchill gave to his father for hiding him . |
| 13 | Before examining the practice of Nizan 's creative writing in detail , however , it is appropriate to elucidate the general theoretical approach informing this practice , the manner , in short , in which Nizan responded to the general debate on socialist realism when formulating his own highly individual theory of revolutionary literature . |
| 14 | Behind it on the wall hangs a painting by Robert Colquhoun which Minton bequeathed to the Royal College . |
| 15 | The French verse which Pamela recites to Mrs. Belville is from Voltaire 's adaptation Nanine ; the first scene between Lady Davers , Pamela , and Belville is from a contemporary translation of Goldoni 's Pamela Nubile ; the first scene between Mrs. Jewkes , Pamela and Mr. Williams is from Giffard 's adaptation and the Italian dialogue is a translation of a Richardson scene between the Countess and Belville . |
| 16 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 17 | The Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ) , which Watkins referred to as ‘ The Tree of the Ancient Track ’ , meets several of these criteria . |
| 18 | Motherhood , marriage and domesticity were basic female instincts which Acton compared to the ‘ unnatural ’ sexual desire of the prostitute , the nymphomaniac and the courtesan . |
| 19 | The differences between disciplines which Taylor refers to are compounded by differences between sectors , institutions and even departments . |
| 20 | Identification of the precise mechanism by which Shc connects to Src , and its generalization to other non-receptor tyrosine kinases , can not be far away . |
| 21 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 22 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 23 | By contrast , the Historia Brittonum claims only a ten-year reign for Penda , dating it evidently from the battle of Cogwy ( ch. 65 ) — Bede 's Maserfelth , which Bede dates to 642 but which again may need to be emended ( in accordance with any adjustment of Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ) to 643 ( HE 111 , 9 : V , 24 ) . |
| 24 | This , at any rate , was the offer which Richard made to the King of France while the latter was disbanding his mercenaries at Bourges . |
| 25 | Surrealist écriture automatique , grounded in a Freudian unconscious structured through free association and perceptual memories , presented vision itself as a written form , a ‘ cursive ’ rather than a discursive flow , which Breton understood to be , not representational , but immediate . |
| 26 | The argument from error has here a plausible consistency , while the point which Nozick takes to be his strength begins to look like a weakness . |
| 27 | Even though Gundovald can never have said some of the things which Gregory attributes to him , the bishop of Tours must have had some reason for putting the words into his mouth . |
| 28 | Immunization studies using irradiated sporozoites have indicated that responses to pre-erythrocytic-stage antigens , those expressed by sporozoites or liver-stage parasites , can provide complete immunity both in rodents and in humans , and that similar protective mechanisms , of which CTL appear to be an important component , may operate in each species . |
| 29 | They made plans to meet in Harry 's room sometimes dating the Christmas Vacation which Edward devoted to intense preparations for an entrance scholarship to Merton and continuous work at Latin and Mathematics for Responsions . |
| 30 | He gave Chelsea an indirect free-kick in the box which Wise touched to David Lee . |