Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] to [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came to a lurching pontoon , where she clung to him in excitement , her eyes enormous at the sight of four enormous man-sized earwigs calmly waiting for the ferryboat . |
| 2 | Very similar to BOGIES used to chastise children , hobyahs kidnapped people and imprisoned them in caves , where they had to mine for fairy gold before they were eaten for their pains . |
| 3 | After considering the nature of the exercise and the people involved , I decided against asking to use a tape-recorder and instead noted the events in longhand as they occurred and , where it seemed to me to be significant , noted what was said , verbatim . |
| 4 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 5 | I 'm kind of partial to Teles , so I talked to him about making a Tele version . |
| 6 | I know what my problem is , so I think to myself at least on Christmas Day I can have one normal , decent day . |
| 7 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 8 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 9 | " Crist see well she shuld haue be dampned for synne " so he appeared to her in her sleep , wounded as in his Passion , and told her to put her hand into his side and even to feel his internal organs and heart , commenting that if he is thus open with her , why is she so ashamed to reveal to him the secrets of her heart ? |
| 10 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 11 | If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ? |
| 12 | Aye have a look , while you 're doing that I 'll have a look at what bits and pieces see if I talk to you for a minute about these |
| 13 | Money 's not brilliant but sometimes I see my name on the front page and I feel almost successful for a while , until I come to something like this . ’ |
| 14 | So if we start pulling them about which is cos I said to her about the hall and if I do n't scrub it all off we 're gon na have to erm gon na have to do the hall and er I said we 've got to try to put it on because the walls are so ooh bitty you know what I mean ? |
| 15 | that 's cos I said to him round the other way |
| 16 | I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to . |
| 17 | She was afraid that he would wake Peter if she talked to him in the hall . |
| 18 | However , if you write to us on your return we compensate you for outbound delays as follows : |
| 19 | But if you listen to him on telly , he is n't ! |
| 20 | Clint : ‘ If you listen to something like ‘ Spanish Caravan ’ , The Doors were so diverse . |
| 21 | You could almost think that was a stereo spread of one performance but if you listen to it on headphones you can hear it properly . ’ |
| 22 | If you speak to someone in the department ask it you can have their name in case you need to telephone again ; |
| 23 | cos you have to anything on there , food-wise . |
| 24 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
| 25 | Dentist Simon Allum of Hurworth village , near Darlington , who spoke of his fears in yesterday 's Northern Echo , said : ‘ I have no intention of watching people suffer if they come to me with toothache . ’ |
| 26 | So , the businessman goes across the road to the people running the schools , and says , ‘ These are the jobs we want filled , if you can teach the children these skills we will give them priority if they come to us for a job when they leave . ’ |
| 27 | If any of your readers has any interesting photographs or stories , I would be glad if they wrote to me at the address below . |
| 28 | I said yes thinking Mozart would be lovely , and not thinking any more of it until he stuck to me like a limpet |
| 29 | Tory also makes the other common complaint that the novelist knows less than anyone else what is in fact going on around him — he wants to make a satisfactory pattern , and hardly cares if it corresponds to anything outside his mind . |
| 30 | It 's alright if it comes to you in a ca in a , in a , as a , as a meal |