Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 2 | But it is illegal to import it , send it through the post or display it to the general public . |
| 3 | For example , if one arm of a conglomerate offering financial advice to a client acquires , whether directly or indirectly , inside information from that client and , without that client 's express or implied consent , deals on it , or relays it to others who deal on it , the conglomerate is potentially liable for an action brought by the client for breach of confidence . |
| 4 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 5 | Chetnik paid the rates not appreciating that by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act rates were not payable on any unoccupied hereditament for any period during which the owner was prohibited by law from occupying the hereditament or allowing it to be occupied . |
| 6 | The putting of the city to the ban , or devoting it to the Lord , as the RSV puts it , is part of Joshua 's final orders to the people on the seventh day , and receives no mention in God 's initial instructions to him . |
| 7 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 8 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm afraid I have had little time to entertain you or introduce you to Hochhauser . |
| 10 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
| 11 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 12 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 13 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 14 | Control the interview or lose it to the candidate ? |
| 15 | Removal of British troops from Northern Ireland or confine them to barracks . |
| 16 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 17 | The purchaser of a completed development , for example a factory , who intends to use the development for his or her own trade purposes or lease it to a person using it for trade purposes may be able to claim capital allowances . |
| 18 | We are prepared to clobber the ganger working on the Keighley and Worth Valley railway or his notional supervisor , or send him to prison . |
| 19 | I 'll ground him , or send him to his room . |
| 20 | Please pass on your ideas — whether they 're articles , photographs , or cartoons — to your local correspondent or send them to me directly at Key Street , and do not hesitate to telephone on with any suggestions you may have . |
| 21 | If you are thinking of moving and would welcome a free market valuation , or if you would like to know more about this offer , simply complete the attached voucher and take it into your local Birmingham Midshires Property Services branch , or send it to us , FREEPOST , ( no stamp required ) . |
| 22 | If you would like more information about how CREDO Mid-Pay can release you from payroll drudgery , simply fill in the attached coupon and take or send it to your local Midland branch manager . |
| 23 | He never took Kate home or mentioned her to his mother . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , success is associated only with jumping hurdles , like tests and examinations , and not also with seeing a generality , or capturing it in words and symbols , or explaining it to someone else . |
| 25 | Yes , but can that just be the income , or has it to be the whole capital ? |
| 26 | This may mean demolishing the building or returning it to its original use . |
| 27 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 28 | Because of their beauty such villages are also more subject to draconian planning policies which may prevent any new development at all or restrict it to only the limited in-filling of low-density private housing . |
| 29 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 30 | Conversely , it is thought that some employers will leap at the chance of employing enrolled nurses knowing or believing them to be a cheaper alternative in terms of pay . |