Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been |
| 2 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 3 | I explained to them about the act I 've got . " |
| 4 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |
| 5 | Lamech takes two wives , and boasts to them of the murder he has committed , outdoing Cain . |
| 6 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 7 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 8 | He said to me on the phone he did n't know a great deal cos he was just getting it all together . |
| 9 | It was not part of my plan to make a detour via Chastlecombe , but since you wo n't talk to me on the phone I did n't have much choice . |
| 10 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 11 | It may have been a very naive discovery on my part , but that said something very definite to me about the way we live . |
| 12 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 13 | He should have sent the child to me from the moment she could feed herself , Roirbak thought , sure Ari had been contaminated and spoiled by the life she 'd led at Taler 's Bump . |
| 14 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told the 2,400 troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 15 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 16 | I would have said to you on the phone we do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 17 | I 'm sure I 've I said to you on the phone I think . |
| 18 | you can do it because as you read through your notes as someone 's talking to you in the lecture you will be saying , Yeah of course of course . |
| 19 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 20 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 21 | She did not reply to his cards , and when she spoke to him on the telephone he said she always declined his invitations firmly . |
| 22 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 23 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |
| 24 | To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 27 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 28 | Should I say anything to him about the way I feel , or are my friends right and should I try to forget about him ? |
| 29 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 30 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |