Example sentences of "and [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hours for the approach march to the enemy 's encampment and everyone to be in position before the first hints of dawn . |
| 2 | Full entitlement to fees and maintenance could be offered to those on a basic income level ; 25 per cent to those earning , say , £12-£15,000 a year , and nothing to those with higher incomes . |
| 3 | But it owed everything to political manoeuvres and economic pressures in southern Africa , and nothing to British influence . |
| 4 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 5 | And when , five minutes later , they made their way cautiously over the humpy grass into the heart of the ruins there was no one and nothing to be seen . |
| 6 | Ted would sometimes wonder if he had n't made Pete into a kind of surrogate son to fill the hole that Shaun had left … it was impossible to say for sure , and nothing to be ashamed of anyway . |
| 7 | She means nothing to me and nothing to Dysart either . |
| 8 | Within its shaking beams , there was nothing to be heard and nothing to be felt but the scream and roar of the wind , and the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters , and the thunder of water outside , becoming louder and louder under a chattering ground-base of discarded boulders . |
| 9 | Because there 's everything and nothing to be said , |
| 10 | Identify in their reading , and talk and write about some of the changes in the grammar of English over time , eg in pronouns ( from thou and thee to you ) , in verb forms , in negatives , etc . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 12 | In the 1950s it was rung by my mother to summon my brother and me to meals . |
| 13 | Knowing where to fish is the real key to success at Scourie and one year Stan took Ann and me to one of his favourite lochs , close to Ben Stack . |
| 14 | Herman Schrijver had Lesley Blanche [ best known for her The Wilder Shores of Love ] and Ivy and me to lunch , and most amusing it was . |
| 15 | Eventually , as the night air became too icy , the last of them filed inside , leaving Mark and me to our more frugal but more spacious bivouac on the terrace . |
| 16 | Next day Mary took Frankie , Liza and me to the shops to buy us some new clothes for the wedding . |
| 17 | ‘ I was only a small child when my parents sent my brother and me to an orphanage . |
| 18 | Well , all I can say is that the strain is driving Jim and me to distraction … . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You want Dick and me to … ’ |
| 20 | God has called you and me to be members of His church . |
| 21 | Two days ago , a Cabinet Minister here invited a black South African and me to morning tea in his office . |
| 22 | Anyroad up , The Gloria Hunniford Show sent Nigel Havers and me to Croydon to review the wrestling . |
| 23 | Whilst Ministers were assembling , Harold called Ted Short , the Deputy Leader , Denis Healey and me to his study and there broke the news to the three of us . |
| 24 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 25 | And I to be a corporal of his field , |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it clearly would n't do for Karen and I to be seen together immediately afterwards . |
| 27 | And I to also admitted to him that I |
| 28 | We do most humbly refer our cause and ourselves to the Goodness of your Honor and the Company beseeching you to consider favourably of our unfeigned hindrance beside the great loss of our own stock laid down on these mines . |
| 29 | White-hot heat coursed through him , and with it came the rare , precious fusing of mind and body , so that her thoughts and her emotions flowed out to him , and his to her … we were truly one on that morning , thought Fergus . |
| 30 | It could be said that the We/ Us/Our form is rather a mode of self-description when the poet wishes to present his beloved and himself to the world ( as shown by Donne in the Songs and Sonnets ) , and that Shakespeare prefers to keep the relationship on an interpersonal level . |