Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked away from the tramp in her drawing-room to Jim in his Italian shirt and black doeskin trousers . |
| 2 | Fleischmann decided to send over all the equipment , cell , fluid and palladium , by air to Harwell for them to do the neutron measurements . |
| 3 | A complete energy spectrum of all neutrons was needed but Fleischmann 's earlier hope that he could send cells to Harwell for them to make measurements on had been thwarted by customs and excise regulations . |
| 4 | as if sensing what he intended , Spatz drew the file towards him , then handed it to Ellis at his side . |
| 5 | In a fresh effort to secure Jimmy Dunne , Chapman arranged to go to Sheffield with his chairman and vice-chairman — in secret , or so he thought . |
| 6 | By 1872 accrued capital enabled him to return to Sheffield with his wife and stepson , setting up as a picture framer . |
| 7 | Born in Kent , she now lives close to Sunderland with her T.V. producer husband and their 8 year old daughter . |
| 8 | It 's claimed he made contact with the KGB on a vacation trip to Moscow during his second year at Oxford ; an argument that certainly does n't wash with Jesse Malkin . |
| 9 | Soviet President Gorbachev made an official stop-over visit to the South Korean island of Cheju on April 19-20 , whilst returning to Moscow from his four-day visit to Japan [ see p. 38148 ] . |
| 10 | Marcus in London remained secluded , his chief ‘ manifestations ’ being visits to Patrick during which it seemed ( Ludens was sometimes present ) little was said . |
| 11 | But a neighbour kindly brought it back to Baldersdale for me . |
| 12 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |
| 13 | Our sincere sympathy to Sheila on her loss . |
| 14 | And then she would look to Gary for him to begin the piano again , and she would look us straight in the eye for as long as possible , and she would sing : |
| 15 | Money from the sale of an old cup that turned out to be valuable , that would be different ; Gran would take it , without much thanks to Ben for his trouble , and perhaps it would be the end of all her struggles . |
| 16 | my Prince Charles impression , do n't you dare say anything to Ben about it |
| 17 | Now internationally recognized as a result of The Age of Unreason , a book that encapsulates most of his thinking on the future of work and organisations — for example , the concepts of ‘ portfolio ’ work for the over-50s , the ‘ shamrock ’ company with a small permanent core and contracted-out services — Handy is Britain 's only world-class guru and perhaps the closest thinker to Drucker in his range of predictive ideas on society . |
| 18 | She supposed that Maria Luisa must have turned to Fernando in her despair when Steve had left Seville and that was how their affair had started ; now Fernando was so besotted it edged towards obsession and he was doing crazy things like holding her here against her will for some sort of revenge on Steve . |
| 19 | The driver was taken to the same hospital , but later moved to Wolverhampton for his own protection as angry relatives and friends of the girls ' families gathered in corridors . |
| 20 | I leave Skye returning to Inverness with his account very similar to my own experience barring the missiles and the guides and honestly think once again that the number of visitors to some ‘ beauty spots ’ in the Highlands and Islands were far in excess of those of today . |
| 21 | That she writes boldly to Artemisia concerning her frustration , and more timorously to Lucinda , suggests partly a lingering ambivalence over the choices she has made , and , more proximately , a nervousness as she approached the literary world . |
| 22 | In that state , Paul talked more than he should ; and boasted to Edwin of his engagement to a lady whose grandfather was the Earl of Holden in Warwickshire . |
| 23 | This summer he displayed it at air shows around the UK and in France and went to Malaga in it . |
| 24 | And I was going down to Waterloo for my train |
| 25 | And , going on in the same vein before Fabia could gently state that she would n't dream of going to Czechoslovakia without her , ‘ It 's about a four-hour crossing so you 'll have time for some shut-eye and a rest before … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 27 | ‘ I say , I 've just had the most marvellous idea — why do n't you come to Czechoslovakia with me ? ’ |
| 28 | Then I thought stuff that , I 'd rather go to Ibiza with my literary agent , Alison , and take some Ecstasy . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the cup was given to Henley without their names being engraved . |
| 30 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |