Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all .
2 She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side .
3 Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels .
4 Somehow she 'd still hoped against hope that Ace might have come to her after all .
5 The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward …
6 This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples .
7 That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage .
8 Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case .
9 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 .
10 The acceptance of such reasoning required Lord Hailsham to address anew the question of the mental element required for lack of consent in rape , since the nineteenth century judges upon whom he relied had never had the matter presented to them in these terms .
11 Presented to them like this , dace can do hardly anything else but accept your bait .
12 If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which agreed on nominating declines to appoint the arbitrator or is unable to nominate him within sixty days of the date of receiving the request which one of the parties presented to it in this regard , each of the parties may ask the Secretary-General of the Permanent Arbitration Court to nominate an appointing authority .
13 To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders .
14 If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started .
15 She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me .
16 Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence !
17 My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case .
18 His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory .
19 We can use the skills and potential revealed to us by each archetype , but should recognize that they emanate from a source beyond our individual powers .
20 The ownership which the sellers were thus given in the handbags was not , however , reserved to the sellers but was granted to them by those who would otherwise have been the owners , namely the buyers of the leather .
21 ( 5 ) A recognised body which is required to insure under this Rule shall each twelve months after recognition is granted to it under these Rules , or at any other time when so required by the Council , submit to the Council evidence of compliance with this Rule .
22 Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night .
23 Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’
24 It was a point made to me with some vehemence by Mahmoud Labadi , who was then official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon , a bespectacled figure every bit as urbane and cynical as his Israeli counterpart .
25 An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’
26 The statute provided that : ‘ The determination by the Commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’
27 ( 2 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by : ( a ) the executors , representatives or disponees of any person who held a licence in respect of premises situated within the area of the board and who has died before the expiry of the licence ; or ( b ) the trustee , judicial factor or curator bonis of any person holding such a licence who has become bankrupt , insolvent or incapable before the expiry of the licence ; transfer the licence to the applicant if the applicant is in possession of the premises .
28 ( 3 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by a person other than an individual natural person , substitute another employee or agent of the applicant for the employee or agent mentioned in section 11 or 26 of this Act .
29 That enhancement scheme is being prepared now and reference should be made to it in this document in respect of .
30 No refund will be made to you of any instalment paid .
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