Example sentences of "[pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 2 | you know for my to school and I like to say something about you know who oh it 's true |
| 3 | Sharing our experiences allowed parts of ourselves to surface which were both painful and joyous . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's all very well , ’ Sophie said unhappily , ‘ but we do n't want to confine ourselves to household pets , do we , Joanna ? ’ |
| 5 | Help ourselves to misery and death ! " |
| 6 | We find it difficult to know how to obtain samples of families with recent baptisms , so we enlist the help of some local clergy who are interested , and we find that it seems simpler to restrict ourselves to baptism within the Anglican Church , since other baptisms in nonconformist churches and chapels suggest that the parents are of some definite religious following . |
| 7 | Until we talk ourselves to bed . |
| 8 | ‘ As you can see , now that we have stopped exposing ourselves to Tramen-exhalation we have developed heads and can talk to each other for the first time . |
| 9 | Now , shall we confine ourselves to business ? |
| 10 | We are not confining ourselves to small-animal work . |
| 11 | One is a problem of content : it is appropriate for feminists to celebrate their diverse sexual choices ( lesbianism or spinsterhood , for instance ) but not , perhaps , to reduce ourselves to body parts ( I would have problems referring to myself approvingly as a cunt , or even as a slut , since I would rather challenge the necessity for a linguistic category of ‘ unchaste ’ women than embrace it with joy ) . |
| 12 | Father said " We 'll restrict ourselves to speech and writing . |
| 13 | Oh no but if you look at the responsibility an E O has n't got for scale three , why are we flogging ourselves to death on scale four ? |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not paid to get involved in ideas of yours to swindle my employer , Zambia . ’ |
| 15 | Tomorrow 's international is Dwyer 's 51st as Australian coach , one for every year of his to date and he kicks off his second half-century seeking his 31st victory . |
| 16 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |
| 17 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary , and now they can be wholly in charge of this — they can change the layout of it as much as the words within it ; they can ask colleagues to come in and comment and even add a little bit . |
| 18 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary — and now they can be wholly in charge of this . |
| 19 | About twice a week I go to lunch with a friend , and again about twice a week I have someone to lunch here . |
| 20 | Also , if I get it written ( which I may not , as I am expecting someone to lunch and want to catch this afternoon 's post ) forward Jenny 's letter ? |
| 21 | Maybe I can find someone to apprentice me . |
| 22 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ The American way of doing things is to have an idea and then persuade someone to back it . |
| 24 | If he went to stay somewhere with Margaret she unpacked her suitcase and put everything away , she did n't leave bags lying open all over the floor for someone to trip over . |
| 25 | To actually get someone to prison is exceptionally hard . |
| 26 | Woodie also spoke of getting someone to anti-foul his hull , so that it would be as clean as Lord Jim 's . |
| 27 | Vi had a roof over her head again , bed and board and two shillings a day pay , and , better than that , she had found someone to mother . |
| 28 | How could one live with someone , love someone to distraction and be blind or , at least , allow oneself to be kept in the dark about so many things ? |
| 29 | Admitting someone to hospital for respite care permits review of their problems — medical or otherwise — and drug regimens . |
| 30 | There are also times when there may be no option but to admit someone to hospital for treatment when there is a serious risk that the person will harm him or herself or is becoming physically ill through inadequate nourishment and self-care . |