Example sentences of "[pers pn] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
| 2 | It would take them hours to deprogramme those instructions . |
| 3 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | The fact that the local authority had the legal right to control the premises made them occupiers to the exclusion of the previous owners of the house . |
| 5 | Gave them permission to erm |
| 6 | Do think the rest of us in , in , in the Western world have a duty to give them money to , to help sort out the pollution problem ? |
| 7 | Me ankle hurts every time I put me foot to the ground . |
| 8 | I skirted the dike district too — or at any rate two big chicks denied me entry to their purple sanctum . |
| 9 | After fifteen years some may have emigrated died … would all of them spring to the colours when called ? ’ |
| 10 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 11 | The following day it gained me entrance to the main gate of the embassy . |
| 12 | It gives me pleasure to be able to supply these adventures . |
| 13 | It was my blood because he had given me mouth to mouth resuscitation . |
| 14 | Are n't I kind to you ? |
| 15 | I appointment to removal and would be grateful for your advice . |
| 16 | Choice pears masked with chocolate sauce and cream , beautiful fresh peaches smothered in raspberry purée and set around with vanilla ice seem to me offences to nature , let alone to art or basic principles . |
| 17 | You never gave them keys to Madge . |
| 18 | come up mum 's with the , and he snatched my handbag and he took the keys , he said that copper has got no rights to tell him to hand over them keys to me , I said what and he snatched them out of my handbag and I 've got no rights to my own house keys and I said what rights have I got to do , down his flat and collect half of my stuff back then ? |
| 19 | In July 1878 , though , the Bureau of Indian Affairs assumed responsibility for the Nez Perce , and transferred them south to the parched 7000-acre Quapaw Reservation in Kansas Territory . |
| 20 | It was on Thursday afternoon , as she was passing Vass 's office , that Lisa struck her head round the door and reminded him , ‘ You 'd better give me directions to your house . |
| 21 | This greener-than-thou attitude to nature is neither the traditional ethic of countryside husbandry , nor is it grounded in scientific ecology . |
| 22 | Well , two or three years ago , I said to really mad , there 's me working full time , him on shifts and me Monday to Friday , nine till five , come Friday night I start and I spend the entire weekend washing , ironing , cooking , and |
| 23 | What oh yes you 've got to go out with them films to Kingsworth . |
| 24 | It it 's more than that it 's it 's making lads and lasses aware of what the schemes are , I mean nobody 's ever said to them reaction to some of these schemes |
| 25 | I love my husband very much , but he just wo n't give me room to be me . |
| 26 | I would hope to look them eye to eye and speak to them as one of humanity as I am , as people who have suffered as I have , and as have 3,000 people in Northern Ireland and as the Balls now have in Warrington . |
| 27 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 28 | For a fee of whisky he will help mortals caught in Fairyland to escape , or show them antidotes to spells and curses . |
| 29 | Give them room to be taken easily from their shelves , not wrenched and twisted from their tightly packed companions . |
| 30 | It took me years to finally comprehend . |