Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It gets to them in the finish and there 's about eight of them |
| 15 | Kylie gets to it in the Point |
| 16 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She kneels to him along the leaning |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( Feb 20-Mar 20 ) You should read the forecast for Sagittarius , so much of it applies to you at the moment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Everything points to me as the murderer , the rapist . |
| 26 | The knowledge that we now have about fertilization and development of the human ovum speaks to us of the miracle of our existence . |
| 27 | If it proposes to amend the key diagram such that it does not indicate that the County Council intends to construct a blue route , which is what the key diagram indicates to me at the moment , then the ball game becomes very different . |
| 28 | He never talks to her at the table — but she stares at him strangely sometimes . |
| 29 | The wasted life and the wasted love that comes to me in the night and makes me cry out in pain . ’ |
| 30 | It is estimated that as much as 98% of dioxin intake by humans comes to us through the food chain , notably meat , milk , fish and eggs . |