Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the response from readers who wrote to me with their amazing success stories , that it was decided I should write an extended version of the book and the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet was published last January . |
| 2 | All the readers who wrote to us were ordinary people doing ordinary jobs , people of all ages and professions . |
| 3 | The readers who wrote to us could have read a book , heard a story , or seen a film , and then forgotten about it . |
| 4 | And er again , when we get to year fifteen , I get one or two clients who say to me well actually the Norwich have just sent me a bonus record through and I 've actually got nine thousand in the pot already , I think I 'll pay the mortgage off . |
| 5 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 6 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 7 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 8 | And and she 's got a couple of lady solicitors who come to her ! |
| 9 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) In appointing members of the Funding Council the Secretary of State — ( a ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , the provision of further education ( within the meaning of section 1(5) ( b ) of the 1980 Act ) or to have held , and to have shown capacity in , any position carrying responsibility for the provision of such further education and , in appointing such persons , he shall have regard to the desirability of their being currently engaged in the provision of such further education or in carrying responsibility for such provision ; and ( b ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , industrial , commercial or financial matters or the practice of any profession . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) In appointing members of the Funding Council the Secretary of State — ( a ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , the provision of further education ( within the meaning of section 1(5) ( b ) of the 1980 Act ) or to have held , and to have shown capacity in , any position carrying responsibility for the provision of such further education and , in appointing such persons , he shall have regard to the desirability of their being currently engaged in the provision of such further education or in carrying responsibility for such provision ; and ( b ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , industrial , commercial or financial matters or the practice of any profession . |
| 12 | With the increase in population from the early nineteenth century , education in this illiberal form was unable to adapt itself " to the needs of the new body of persons who turned to it for help " . |
| 13 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 14 | He followed her swift figure among the pens and observed the number of farmers who nodded to her . |
| 15 | But to provide security , comfort and a sense of worth to the parents and relatives who belong to us is a job worth doing and worth doing with all the compassion and love that we can give . |
| 16 | Her stained fingers deftly fold betel nut and spices into a betel leaf to hand the paan or a packet of cigarettes to customers who come to her . |
| 17 | He also explains that the reason he is happy to accept minimum portfolios of £25,000 is because ‘ time and time again , small investors who come to us are pleased with the service and come back five or ten years later ’ , having inherited substantial sums . |
| 18 | The prostitutes who catered to them were a special type . |
| 19 | Richard Baxter had preached to large congregations who listened to him very attentively . |
| 20 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 21 | A doctor spoke recently of the many patients who came to him — mostly men — complaining of stiff neck , poor sleep , loss of appetite and failing sexual desire . |
| 22 | Where are the creatures who swore to you their allegiance if you would regain the Bright Palace for them ? ’ |
| 23 | Hence national levels of support for what is essentially a late-secondary or post-secondary programme , the local organization which supports it and the commitment of teachers who contribute to it at more than one level — all these matter . |
| 24 | Freya , like many other girls who wrote to me , mentions her low opinion of herself as leading to , or contributing to , her anorexia . |
| 25 | And I know a lot of things too with the girls who came to us , we tried to erm give them er a sense of their worth as a women and not to constantly be oppressed and to accept erm what their boyfriends did or said , and so on . |
| 26 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 27 | ‘ Several friends who spoke to her have confirmed she felt ‘ destroyed ’ by the coverage . |
| 28 | ‘ Several friends who spoke to her have confirmed she felt ‘ destroyed ’ by the coverage . |
| 29 | One aspect of this operation over which state schools , at any rate , have minimal control is the pupils who come to them . |
| 30 | Of course , this is something that private schools already do , but it is interesting that , even in the public sector , some ‘ magnet ’ schools , upset by their relatively poor performance in examination results , are asking if they ca n't exclude children who come to them on placing requests from deprived areas . |