Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all that matters to me at the moment . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This is my favourite place , ’ Jeremy shouts to her above the music , ‘ fantastic girls here , really alive and witty . |
| 3 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 4 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 5 | ‘ What happens to them in the wood ? ’ |
| 6 | Everything nice happens to me in the autumn . |
| 7 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 8 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 9 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 10 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
| 11 | In my experience the smart rejoinder to a put down usually occurs to me on the bus on the way home , but at least some of my guests were quick thinking enough to exact their revenge … |
| 12 | Take a blank sheet of paper and write down everything that occurs to you about the word(s) you have chosen , giving yourself about ten minutes . |
| 13 | A field which wishes to attempt to ensure that some offers are made in combination with one or more other fields sees to it at the beginning of the cycle that ‘ reserved offers ’ are set aside . |
| 14 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 15 | It gets to them in the finish and there 's about eight of them |
| 16 | I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ . |
| 17 | Kylie gets to it in the Point |
| 18 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 19 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 20 | She kneels to him along the leaning |
| 21 | There are comparable cases in other areas of culture studies ( e.g. Williams 1961 ) , where what appears to us as the image of one section of society is actually fabricated by a quite different class . |
| 22 | ( Feb 20-Mar 20 ) You should read the forecast for Sagittarius , so much of it applies to you at the moment . |
| 23 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 24 | And that is the erm absence of understanding it seems to us from the County Planning Department of the way the actual market works , and of the need for a local authority area erm in seeking to obtain employment for its people , the need for that area to be able to offer a variety of er employment land both in quality , size and location . |
| 25 | Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ? |
| 26 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |
| 27 | Apples were also taken west to Greece and Italy , and Homer refers to them in The Odyssey , which was written between 900 and 800 BC . |
| 28 | The bird has a piercing yellow eye and I think an older generation of wild-fowlers still refers to it as the golden-eye although that name , strictly speaking , belongs to an entirely different species . |
| 29 | Everything points to me as the murderer , the rapist . |
| 30 | The knowledge that we now have about fertilization and development of the human ovum speaks to us of the miracle of our existence . |