Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors .
2 I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills .
3 ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers .
4 The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks .
5 Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability .
6 We shall highlight the options available to you and their potential benefits and hazards to enable your final decision to be based as far as possible on a complete understanding of the available alternatives .
7 Next , you have to consider the options open to you and their likely consequences .
8 Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) .
9 This special low rate is available only to you and your fellow developers .
10 All too soon , I regret , we shall be forced to say adieu to you and your distinguished father . "
11 ‘ I 've listened to you and your sanctimonious blabberings for the last time !
12 ‘ In an enclosed community , Master Corbett , people chatter — to themselves , to their sister , to me , or even to you or your ubiquitous servant , Master Ranulf . ’
13 A person whose identity was not known to him and whose very existence remained to be proved ?
14 Whitaker died 15 April 1654 and was buried in St Giles , where memorials to him and his first wife were erected .
15 Max had heard from his office that I was seeking to speak to him and his friendly response was to telephone me himself .
16 The case , which is being heard in secret , is believed to centre on payments to her and their two children , Daniel , 9 , and Lauren , 5 .
17 The suicide theory wo n't occur to her and her common sense would tell her it 's unlikely to be written off as another accident .
18 My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children .
19 So , no she 's very much in the background she was and then course little old boy he goes down to her and his old eyes lit up again s , so then eventually come in , so he said erm oh here 's that trophy they wanted , she come third in Great Britain , little old gran .
20 to it but he actual dance is lost .
21 Too often , even if we are committed Christians , we are afraid of death and like secular society prefer to imagine that it will not happen to us or our loved ones .
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