Example sentences of "[indef pn] 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 | Now , he thought , there is none to whom we may entrust a message . |
| 5 | ( Readers should note the exclusivity of the choice presented here ; something to which I shall return . ) |
| 6 | I 'm hoping she might have said something to someone which might help me find her . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This surely must be a trick , one to which she must find the answer before setting out with him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Anybody to whom one could talk about the place ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nothing to what you could see tonight . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You are quite sure that he said nothing to you which might provide us with a clue to the killer ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was no-one to whom she could confide , ‘ I 'm afraid of my husband 's affection for his daughter … my daughter . ’ |
| 19 | He had never had anyone to whom he could talk about Mr Skinner . |
| 20 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 21 | But there were never any open words expressing the inflection , never anything to which he could raise objection . |