Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she goes to me like a silver plate and they just turn it into gold as soon as they walk in there . |
| 2 | Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ? |
| 3 | She refers to them as the ‘ Children Of The Crown ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ And she writes to me about a man like this ! ’ |
| 5 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 6 | She kneels to him along the leaning |
| 7 | — Amadou has never seen a beautiful white starwoman like this , and she speaks to him in a soft low voice like the south breeze stirring in the palms , like it does just before the sun sets . |
| 8 | Like so many of Lonsdale 's ladies she is surprising ; yet she speaks to us with a directness that wipes out the centuries . |
| 9 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 10 | She talks to you in a flat , friendly voice with an alluring self-protective hesitancy that only beautiful women can carry off . |
| 11 | He holds to it in a most unsceptical way — that is , with a fair degree of dogmatism . |
| 12 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 13 | I mean , she could have been er in love with Rochester but it looks to me like a beginning of an idea , you know , that er there are circumstances in which she er |
| 14 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |
| 15 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |
| 17 | It gets to them in the finish and there 's about eight of them |
| 18 | Now it sounds to me like the final stages of a marriage : two separated parties , screwed to their own particular pieces of floor , uttering routine chatter while the rain begins to fall . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | He sounds to me like a man who 's running scared … ’ |
| 21 | He takes to it as a duck takes to water . |
| 22 | ( Feb 20-Mar 20 ) You should read the forecast for Sagittarius , so much of it applies to you at the moment . |
| 23 | It seems to me to a be a great joke — do they call it the knobs and knockers committee ? |
| 24 | It 's funny 'cos , I mean , the T V news actually provides that function in this country , I think , of the middle ground , whereas it seems to me on a very limited sort of reading that the T V news erm provides a different sort of service in the States . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It seems to me about the most you can ask of the human body . |
| 27 | I do n't know , but it seems to me like a hell of a way to live . |
| 28 | ‘ It seems to me like the perfect time for a little humour . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Here we are not only going to give you technical details , but also try and tell you what it means to us as a Community . |