Example sentences of "[pron] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We find it difficult to know how to obtain samples of families with recent baptisms , so we enlist the help of some local clergy who are interested , and we find that it seems simpler to restrict ourselves to baptism within the Anglican Church , since other baptisms in nonconformist churches and chapels suggest that the parents are of some definite religious following . |
| 2 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 3 | He is reported to have invited himself to lunch with the Mayor of Bodmin , but firstly asked his worship for a gallows to be erected for a hanging . |
| 4 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 5 | Julian Bailey , despite failing to qualify his Lotus 102B at Phoenix , is understood to be prepared to commit himself to Lotus for the entire season — if Martin Donnelly is n't fit enough to race — backed by a personal investment of up to £75,000 , earned during two years with the Group C Nissan team . |
| 6 | If not it seems to me possible that Summerchild could be opening himself to proceedings under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 7 | More important is the fact that Aragorn has the stone available to him , and that Sauron ( having seen a hobbit in the same stone ) thinks Aragorn also has the Ring : it is because Aragorn showed himself to Sauron in the palantir that Sauron neglects his guard . |
| 8 | He had another , older boy , Shaun ; but Shaun had taken himself to Australia at the age of eighteen and had n't been home since . |
| 9 | This Bobby did , and was cautiously treating himself to oysters at the bar when Minton came in with some sailors and bade him join them . |
| 10 | It first sets in a social and theological context the desire of the unknown nobleman to devote himself to God without the distractions that arise from involvement with secular responsibilities . |
| 11 | For locating religious quotations , concordances to the Bible will direct you to quotations in the Old and New Testament . |
| 12 | In those days , if you were ill in England , the doctor visited you , rather than expecting you to stagger to the surgery . |
| 13 | The sun is shining , it 's a beautiful day , we 'll throw our sandwiches discreetly away and I shall take you to lunch at the Lur Inn . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You know , I wanted to take you to lunch at the Ritz , like we did last time , but it would have made us so late in Calking . |
| 15 | How easy is it to show concern for school work when a beloved father takes you to school in the morning and kills himself by midday ? |
| 16 | We 're going to adopt you , and send you to school after the summer holidays . ’ |
| 17 | That 's why Jeff brought you to Sardinia in the first place ! ’ |
| 18 | The disc contains a text file reader to enable you to page through the authors text file using indexes , just as you would a book . |
| 19 | A subscription entitles you to entry to the Sportcentre , and to view any sport or game for which there is no separate entrance fee . |
| 20 | Morning and afternoon chats , regular instruction sessions and water games when the winds drop , all aim to addict you to windsurfing in the most pleasant way possible . |
| 21 | I 'd like to say thank you to WOMAN for the lovely prize I won in the WOMAN '91 competition . |
| 22 | In effect they will be assessing you in much the same way that you make your own self-assessment and then trying to match you to jobs in the way that you should do when applying for jobs directly . |
| 23 | Television 's most famous bear and star of the longest running children 's show in the world SOOTY , with his pals SWEEP & SOO and Ringmaster MATTHEW CORBETT , invite you to roll-up for the Circus and get ready to laugh and be amazed . |
| 24 | It is now my opinion that the main things to remember if you 're going back to work after having a baby are that as long as you find someone you 're happy with to look after your baby while you 're at work , you 'll be happy and so will your baby , and that you will be able to do the job when you go back , even if the thought of it scares you to death in the months leading up to your return . |
| 25 | Auto-cook/heat allows you to programme in the type of food and its weight , then the oven does all the rest — some models use an automatic sensor for this . |
| 26 | He 'd take you to places like The Candy Box , just off Carnaby Street . |
| 27 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 28 | His address to army officers clearly underlined the split between the army and Prime minister Nawaz Sharif 's civilian government which has confined itself to condemnation of the large scale bombing of Iraq . |
| 29 | It is simply what presents itself to Moose as the truth when he reflects as carefully as he can , and what he therefore expects to present itself likewise to others . |
| 30 | The receiving cell can adjust itself to changes in the behaviour of the transmitting cell in two ways . |