Example sentences of "to my [adj] friend " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Women have babies , ’ I said firmly to my redeeming friend , ‘ so it 's men who have to decide about spending money , such as money on restaurant bills . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When I like people a lot , I never tell their names to my other friends . |
| 3 | I do not introduce her to my other friends . |
| 4 | Even now , I 'm not sure what it was that I wanted to say , and talking to my new friend is the only way I am learning . |
| 5 | Daddy , let me introduce you to my new friend , Martin . |
| 6 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
| 7 | I recall explaining to my close friends at school , querying why my sister was so distressed , what had happened , but directing them not to tell anybody . |
| 8 | " Collector Sahib , though I do not forgive bad treatment from Sircar and from British Collector Sahib , I do not wish to cause personal grievance to my good friend , Mr Hopkin . |
| 9 | And that brings me to my good friend , Ian Adamson . |
| 10 | As chairman of the Labour party , I thank the right hon. Lady for her tribute to my good friend Dame Judith Hart . |
| 11 | I am already beset by offers to interrupt my pearls of wisdom and , in deference to my good friend , I give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 12 | You will ask yourself , ‘ If I listen to my best friend within and follow the precepts , will he lead me to the same holiness as those whose life was dedicated to the light ? ’ |
| 13 | I do , according to my best friend who 's just had a baby . |
| 14 | Clinging on to my best friend , my buddy , |
| 15 | I resolved to cling to my Soviet Friends , as if this were Moscow or Leningrad ; my rusty Russian soon became relatively fluent again , helped by alcohol . |
| 16 | Er , if they do n't , the commencement will not take place and we will continue on the existing boundaries , that would , and I 'll give way to my honourable friend in a moment , that of course would create massive inconvenience , I see no er real reason why the other states er which have yet to ratify should not do so er but my honourable friend I think wanted to intervene with a further thought on this point so I give way to her . |
| 17 | to my honourable friend because not only are these er large er particularly the big six er centres of accountancy power pretty well uncontrolled , they dominate the institutions that are meant to regulate them er but when it comes to international er affairs they do n't exchange information with each other . |
| 18 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 19 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 20 | I say to my honourable friend as far as the P I A 's concerned he will have an early opportunity er to consider er the prospectus on that which is indeed being published er and I take very seriously the point he makes about adequate monitoring procedures and the need for an audit trail . |
| 21 | I 'm very grateful to my honourable friend . |
| 22 | What I w what I will say to my honourable , my right honourable friend is that er when I recently visited the United States I did find that the , on which our training and enterprise councils have been based , have provided a very valuable experience for us in learning the lessons that he had indicated of ensuring that the private sector is fully involved in decisions over training and I believe that the figure I gave to my honourable friend early today , combined with over two billion that my department spends on training , forms a very effective public private sector partnership . |
| 23 | But I just say to my honourable friend I do n't think er compulsion er is the route with that we should follow . |
| 24 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 25 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 26 | Er I I 'm most er grateful to my honourable friend for giving yet another example of how the social chapter has exported jobs out of the eleven into Britain . |
| 27 | As to my honourable friend 's confi concerns about Essex and of course his constituency borders mine . |
| 28 | Which took me straight back to my young friend on the terrace , for whom only the numbers count . |
| 29 | I say to my rock-musician friends : ‘ What could be heavier than 15 people all together , blasting out on those bamboo tubes ? |
| 30 | They realise that their route to the Community can be opened only if their countries are practising real democracy in respect of human rights , and multi-party Parliaments — although I said to my Polish friends , ’ You can go a bit too far . ’ |