Example sentences of "of [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess .
2 The patrol released several prisoners but tool 18 of them to a ravine named Chilcahuaycco and apparently beat and then shot them .
3 ‘ I would sell any of them to a non-Asian but I do n't know who they are .
4 Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context .
5 As a corollary to the fact noted above , that one had usually to teach through the various grades of medreses before becoming eligible for one of the mevleviyets , it follows that the grades of the kasabat kadiliks formed a career in themselves , and one did not normally ascend from one of them to a mevleviyet .
6 Consider a common situation ; a manufacturer sells a number of his products to a wholesaler ; the wholesaler sells some of them to a retailer and the retailer sells one of them to a consumer .
7 Consider a common situation ; a manufacturer sells a number of his products to a wholesaler ; the wholesaler sells some of them to a retailer and the retailer sells one of them to a consumer .
8 At the stroke of a pen they removed hundreds of thousands of needy youngsters from the benefit system and condemned many of them to a life of mendicant poverty , many also slipped into prostitution .
9 We used , father , after he got motorized , he sold one of them to a man named at Fordham .
10 I thought well , there 's two of them to every one of them .
11 And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw .
12 Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ?
13 This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period .
14 In fact , an incurious person might travel from one end of them to the other without seeing a single shrub .
15 Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature .
16 I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely .
17 They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on .
18 The cultural and psychological elaboration of these various motives of course raises difficulties for any simple relation of them to the biological .
19 There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats .
20 Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class .
21 If you use ball-point pens remember that they too run out or refuse to function : test them before use and take a bundle of them to the examination or the practice session .
22 Making an effort , Albert told Bella where they were going , and she sent a pair of children 's ski mitts ahead of them to the pension .
23 Tutilo stood staring in bewilderment from one of them to the other , without understanding , almost without recognition .
24 In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein .
25 Some tests may involve chemicals which need to be handled with care , but this should not preclude the sale of them to the general public in kits which include protective goggles and detailed instructions on their handling .
26 The chief constable must make his objections within 21 days of the receipt by him of the notice , and must , on lodging objections , send a copy of them to the secretary of the club .
27 In Cairo , exhausted by the traumas of recent weeks , she had been concerned not only about the Shah and his morale , but also about their four children who had gone ahead of them to the states .
28 The bankruptcy order is settled by the court in Form 6.25 in Schedule 4 to the rules ( r 6.33 ) , see Appendix C , form 32 , and the court must send at least two sealed copies to the official receiver who must send one of them to the bankrupt and cause the order to be entered in the register of writs and orders at the land registry and be advertised in the London Gazette and local newspaper ( r 6.34 ) .
29 First he returned one of them to the brass container .
30 I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes .
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