Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her part , she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand . |
| 2 | John — Augustus cast a sentimental eye on his retreat , convinced in his euphoria of pristine well-being that he had encountered one of nature 's radicals , someone to whom he could reveal his new true feelings . |
| 3 | Here was someone to whom I could confide . |
| 4 | The assumption is based on religious writings , which in their turn are probably based on the primitive beliefs which early man formulated in pursuance of that almost uncontrollable urge to find something beyond himself to which he could ascribe the origins of the many mysterious things around him . |
| 5 | → If your letter is serious , I am in no position to offer advice , since you really should see your doctor and ask him to refer you to someone who can help . |
| 6 | Your GP and your health visitor are sources of help , and can arrange suitable treatment , or refer you to someone who can help you . |
| 7 | Now , he thought , there is none to whom we may entrust a message . |
| 8 | ( Readers should note the exclusivity of the choice presented here ; something to which I shall return . ) |
| 9 | I 'm hoping she might have said something to someone which might help me find her . ’ |
| 10 | Clearly , this is important and the relationship between the state , civil society and different sections of the working class is one to which we will need to return . |
| 11 | 1.7 , a point of some significance in the context of this essay , and one to which I shall return later ) , or take them to the Temple for the ritual redemption of the first-born ( idem ) ; they were exempt from making the thrice-yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem at the feasts of Passover , Pentecost and Tabernacles ( Hag . |
| 12 | This is the point ( not self-advertisement — the book is out of print ) of referring to my own work in such detail , and it is one to which I shall return in discussing the treatment of anorexics , in particular their apparent imperviousness to psycho-analysis and their liability to relapse . |
| 13 | I did n't envy them their individual futures , which seemed dull or trivial to me , but I did envy the fact they had futures at all , whereas I had none , or , at least , not one to which I could look forward with any confidence . |
| 14 | This surely must be a trick , one to which she must find the answer before setting out with him . |
| 15 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |
| 16 | Anybody to whom one could talk about the place ? |
| 17 | If by our standards their lot was a hard one , what they suffered inside was nothing to what they would have had to endure outside from a still brutalised populace . |
| 18 | Nothing to what you could see tonight . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You are quite sure that he said nothing to you which might provide us with a clue to the killer ? ’ |
| 20 | A foolish heart ( mine ) betrayed me , blinding me to what I should have seen . |
| 21 | Fastening me to anything I can go anywhere |
| 22 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 23 | There was no-one to whom she could confide , ‘ I 'm afraid of my husband 's affection for his daughter … my daughter . ’ |
| 24 | Pass them to me I 'll do it now , some of those fruit dishes , there 's not enough room there for the glasses , I like them then I 'll take them . |
| 25 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |
| 26 | ‘ And if the old skinflint wo n't give it to me I shall take it just the same . |
| 27 | ‘ Brother , if you will send it to me I will make lots of drawings for you of the Heike , and whatever you want … . |
| 28 | Fawcett said that this sounded very important and that if Pons sent it to him he would rush it through . |
| 29 | If I mentioned it to him I could see he was bored to the point of distress . |
| 30 | He 'd not leave it to someone who would turn it over . |