Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This can be anything from a loan of £10 to tide your sister over to her next pay cheque , to substantial gifts like giving your grandson the money for the deposit on his first house .
2 His father , however , did have the wit to apprentice his son to Clementi , the composer and piano maker , and so Field , in his early teens , was sent to London to study .
3 ‘ Perhaps , ’ he has written , ‘ some western writers are longing for subjects provided by violent historical change , but I can assure [ them$ that we , ie , natives of hazy Eastern regions , perceive history as a curse and prefer to restore to literature its autonomy , dignity and independence from social pressures . ’
4 He was tolerant of his brother Neil 's attempts to piggyback his way into the movies on the Connery name , and understanding of his mother 's very Scottish shame at his success ; she took to booking even her hair appointments in her maiden name .
5 Patients in one group were given Reflotron machines ( Boehringer Mannheim , Germany ) and were asked to measure their triglyceride concentrations at home , before meals and before going to bed , twice a week and to record the results in diaries .
6 He thinks some states and cities will resort to pump-priming their economies with spending on things like roads , airports and waste-management .
7 And Murphy 's Law invariably applies : if you do n't want anybody to knock on your door — because you 're putting the kids to bed/washing your hair/making love/cooking something impossible like a souffl é/late; for just about anything/working to a deadline/just secretly reclining on the sofa with a packet of your favourite chocolate biscuits , watching Coronation Street — somebody always will .
8 In the eighteenth century educated women became more likely to breast-feed their babies .
9 PICTURES of smiling babies can no longer be used on the packaging of powdered milk for infants after the European Parliament voted yesterday for measures to encourage mothers to breast-feed their children .
10 I was saying to mum it Sally 's was ages before theirs stopped .
11 As beef farmers , they are not able to get grants to setaside their land.The racing is an alternative way of making money .
12 ‘ I am going over to Stone later on to change our Mother 's accumulator .
13 The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide .
14 They had patronised it the previous night , taking to heart its motto ( in Latin ) , ‘ drink yourself to hell ’ .
15 He was an arrogant man who thought he had only to crook his finger and she would come running .
16 He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman .
17 My third point is coming back to Chairman your point about the paragraph , the criterion paragraph of thirty three of P P G three , and the settlement in my view fails the first the first test , since the very city which it is supposed to relieve says that the need can be met , and I quote , within and on the edge of the urban area and villages .
18 Galileo was able to outmanoeuvre his rival in the fruitless game of the invention of ad hoc devices for the protection of theories .
19 Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly .
20 King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign .
21 And if we do so we might call ourselves a nomadic and pastoral people of the transcendent ; and we shall be able to pasture our thoughts like the flocks of the nomads .
22 Echo Logic is expected to debut its FlashPort tools at Apple 's developer conference next week ( UX No 433 ) — Apple says wo n't be offering the Echo technology directly .
23 He has the power to gralloch our past
24 BELVILLE : To conclude , a husband who expects all this ought not to abridge his wife of any privileges of her sex .
25 We will need to leverage our customers existing investments in other technology .
26 However , many of the examples of literate societies that are available for study suggest that this is not the case : in fact these societies continue to practice what Goody has defined as ‘ oral ’ modes of communication , with all its limitations .
27 He has never found it hard to practice his goalscoring trade on his travels here , there and everywhere .
28 So we need to practice our numbers from twenty up to thirty one .
29 It has succeeded without any of the marketing hype , environmental or otherwise , that rival firms use to soft-soap their customers .
30 I called to mind his letters in Time and Tide ( January/February 1935 ) about A. A. Milne 's views on war and peace .
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