Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms . |
| 2 | Before this single , the rather distanced American rock press failed to probe deeply into the phenomenon of The Smiths and had constantly referred to them as some kind of wacko gay outfit , English eccentrics playing lightweight rock . |
| 3 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 4 | It probably sums up the case and we can discuss it and perhaps add to it at that time . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , perhaps you 'd better talk to them about that . ’ |
| 6 | Religion is that ideal by which we live and act which , though not embodied in particular religions since all religions are necessarily imperfect , is nevertheless communicated to us through those particular religions . |
| 7 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |
| 8 | ‘ Your father ’ , he said to me in a kind of sob , ‘ has just appeared to me in this garden ! ’ |
| 9 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 10 | Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . |
| 11 | We had never met her before she came , yet she immediately called us Mummy and Daddy , and still writes to us in this way from Nigeria . |
| 12 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 13 | Do n't you ever speak to me like that again , I have n't , I rang , no , no , I the landlord either , I waited until the next morning . |
| 14 | do n't you ever speak to me like that again , and do n't ever push me again , I said balls you old cunt . |
| 15 | ‘ If you ever speak to me like that again , I 'll flay the skin off your arse . |
| 16 | No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played . |
| 17 | I did n't mind , I was happy that he still talked to me at all . |
| 18 | And if we get it right first time , we 'll have a satisfied client who will hopefully return to us for more work . |
| 19 | It was the first time that anybody had ever spoken to me like that and I was shocked . |
| 20 | No one , but no one , had ever spoken to her like that before , and she did n't like it , all the more because she knew he had a point . |
| 21 | Ca n't remember him ever talking to me about this . |
| 22 | I include it here because at no point was it ever put to me in such bald and comprehensible terms . |
| 23 | That kiss had been so bewildering , so utterly unlike anything that had ever happened to her in all her twenty-four years . |
| 24 | The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’ |
| 26 | Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him . |
| 27 | The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward … |
| 28 | He knew , as all the boys had always known , that she had not had the best of lives with his father , but she had never before spoken to him like this . |
| 29 | I bin pretty 'ard put to it in that kitchen lately , ’ he said , passing his hand through his thick greying hair . |
| 30 | They will want to place the promises that Labour is now making to them in that historical context . |