Example sentences of "and [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | In the 1950s it was rung by my mother to summon my brother and me to meals . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Next day Mary took Frankie , Liza and me to the shops to buy us some new clothes for the wedding . |
| 8 | ‘ I was only a small child when my parents sent my brother and me to an orphanage . |
| 9 | Well , all I can say is that the strain is driving Jim and me to distraction … . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You want Dick and me to … ’ |
| 11 | God has called you and me to be members of His church . |
| 12 | Two days ago , a Cabinet Minister here invited a black South African and me to morning tea in his office . |
| 13 | Anyroad up , The Gloria Hunniford Show sent Nigel Havers and me to Croydon to review the wrestling . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | And I to be a corporal of his field , |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it clearly would n't do for Karen and I to be seen together immediately afterwards . |
| 18 | And I to also admitted to him that I |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Getting clothes off , zippers , panties , his cock , what he wants to do to you and you to him . ’ |
| 21 | And there used to be like a big bobbin there and you to and they used to go like that and chuck it up and try and catch it you know , and And we used to play shuttlecock and battledore . |
| 22 | And you to her , I know . ’ |
| 23 | We have not had a great deal of communication from you over the past two years , and it is questionable whether we are of use to you , and you to us . |
| 24 | ‘ Once you sign this contract , we 're committed to you — and you to us . ’ |
| 25 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 26 | Where Macbeth had been concealed or opaque to Duncan , and was thus in a superior position , manipulating him by pretence , we now see Lady Macbeth putting herself in the dominant position , planning to manipulate her husband : Macbeth is now transparent to her , and she to us . |
| 27 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 28 | and she to she took about three minutes before she opened her eyes and came round . |
| 29 | And there could be a protest vote , there will be a protest vote , as the greens knew last time , and we to our sadness found out last time . |
| 30 | Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club . |