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

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1 There are rooms awaiting you , my ladies , and you , my lord , and hot water being taken up to them this instant for you . ’
2 The dervishes looked on death from the transcendent world , and since to them this world is only a momentary separation from God , they regarded death as the union with God .
3 Similarly , sea lions being naturally and instinctively dexterous may be taught to balance balls on their noses , respond to particular noises made by the audience or their trainer and even clap their flippers , but to them this is only a means of receiving food , affection , social contact and so on — all these being motives , goals and feelings they experience in the wild .
4 Right well I 'll get on to them this morning .
5 ‘ Nothing can have happened to them this soon , ’ Joanna whispered , crossing herself .
6 You saw to them this morning .
7 To them this is just a huntin' lodge .
8 But no new names have been signed up to take space in the 165,000 sq ft centre , despite market reports that both Etam and WH Smith were set to confirm lettings to them this week .
9 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
10 Right well I 'll get on to them this morning .
11 erm Every year it does n't normally get in the press but we have to do a deal with all the federations abroad , the Swedes , the Danes , everybody and erm the Danes could n't erm accept what we put to them this year .
12 To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime .
13 When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water .
14 To me this method has several advantages :
15 Taking responsibility would mean you would say , ‘ I felt upset when you did n't speak to me this morning . ’
16 His words have really come home to me this week .
17 To me this country is like a gift . ’
18 To me this is not analytical .
19 The following day , while flogging up Beinn Tulaichean , it occurred to me this is a scheme capable of considerable development , and a National Munro Exchange could be set up — computerised of course .
20 Are you going to explain to me this afternoon how this works are you ?
21 Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult .
22 Any tapes that anybody can get to me this week would be very very good because I was saying er a few minutes ago erm I 'm intending to send whatever we 've got done tomorrow week .
23 It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day .
24 Something that occurred to me this week .
25 I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) .
26 ‘ Gog talked to me this morning , ’ she said .
27 ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ?
28 Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for .
29 A strange thing happened to me this morning .
30 Churches long sealed with all their histories in them were to be opened to me this day .
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