Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work to them is merely a way to earn a living . |
| 2 | The flies which on the previous day had been a nuisance to them were now a torment . |
| 3 | and that , that to me is just a waste of time , no I mean I 'm wasting their time and mine so |
| 4 | The request that you have done me the honour to make , to receive the record of my voice , is one that I cheerfully comply with so far as lies in my power ; though I lament to say that the voice which I transmit to you is only the relic of an organ the employment of which has been overstrained . |
| 5 | But that 's precisely the problem because erm the definition which I would give to it is necessarily a definition which would preclude er regarding Mao 's party as a Marxist party but then other people would say that my definition was er itself controversial . |
| 6 | ‘ Beauty and the changing attitudes to it are always a reflection of how the world changes . |
| 7 | My reference to it was simply a tease , and all the more tempting given Victor 's known sensitivity on the point . |