Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Girl was explaining how she thought perhaps she ought to make some kind of thanks to them for their hospitality . |
| 2 | Thanks to you for your hard work in 1992 and my best wishes to you and your families in 1993 . |
| 3 | I 'll pay my respects to him without you telling me to take a quick look . |
| 4 | ‘ How dare you make speeches to me about what 's proper and what 's not ? |
| 5 | A bank will usually be willing to send deeds to you upon your giving its undertaking on its standard forms . |
| 6 | It is difficult to persuade teachers that the denial of valid arts experiences to themselves during their own school days has denied them an enriching experience and offered them instead an impoverished education . |
| 7 | Our generation is seeing the global drawbacks of industrialisation , the responses to which to which are fourfold : local , national , regional and global . |
| 8 | John Gummer Secretary , oh he sent two postcards to you from his constituents . |
| 9 | so the feeling of the gypsies to what to us is probably equally antagonistic as most people 's attitude to gypsies |
| 10 | When I was a 22-year-old Edinburgh University student , a tutor made unwelcome sexual advances to me in his office . |
| 11 | In fact she 'd said some pretty rude things to him regarding his speedboat-driving , which made the prospect of working with him decidedly awkward . |
| 12 | He had tried to explain things to him from my point of view … . |
| 13 | This was to change assessment of advanced courses from a system driven by external examinations to one in which assessment is driven by the nature of the outcomes in the course and can assess the range of outcomes desirable in vocational courses . |
| 14 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 15 | ‘ Sounds to me like your daughter needs a good kick up the arse , if you 'll pardon the expression . ’ |
| 16 | If you want to come , get five pounds to me with your name and number . |
| 17 | In Elizabeth 's reign there was a Government campaign to glorify his memory , and Foxe devoted 100 pages to him in his Book of Martyrs . |
| 18 | ‘ As you know a little while ago there were discussions between this Office and Stephenson Harwood [ the applicant 's former solicitors ] about a proposed interview to be conducted under the terms of section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 and I promised to provide further details to them of our proposed course of action which is now given to you instead of them : ( 1 ) This Office intends to hold an interview with you under section 2 on Thursday , 13 June 1991 . |
| 19 | She was immediately businesslike and succeeded in putting some suggestions to him in her crisp English way , which banished from her mind again any other thoughts . |
| 20 | In fact , there was another group who were not happy and who expressed their unhappiness in no uncertain terms to me on my return . |
| 21 | After my mother had obligingly betrayed all my confidences to him in my hearing , he said he would find the man — Michael , that is — and compel him to marry me . |
| 22 | To alter this cluster of attitudes to one in which sexuality is seen as an expression of an equal , sharing relationship will require a widespread change in social attitudes through education and other media . |
| 23 | Verses 8–10 : if a man died childless , his brother was duty bound to raise heirs to him by his widow ( set out as the Levirate law , Deuteronomy 25:5 ) . |
| 24 | Payments to him for his sick daughter Mary are included first in what are known as ‘ Church Extras ’ , then in the main list of relief to paupers . |
| 25 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 26 | Each night she wrote glowing tributes to him in her diary but love had turned to hate by August and diary entries showed she had decided to kill the object of her former devotion — and his manager . |
| 27 | The Sea is a sort of mythological enemy , and I make what you might call sacrifices to it in my soul , fearing it a little , respecting it as you 're supposed to , but in many ways treating it as an equal . |
| 28 | Mr Johnson said that on a previous occasion , Mr Chittenden had asked him to deliver flowers to her in her office . |
| 29 | There had been occasional mutterings to himself over his cigarettes , but nothing spoken to them . |
| 30 | It was a credit to everybody and the people of Merseyside who put the finishing touches to everything with their overwhelming support . |