Example sentences of "to [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 2 | He had held her hand while listening to her political ambitions , giving to them the same care he devoted to a Ministerial Statement in the House . |
| 3 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 4 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 5 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 6 | These were Kirsty 's opening words to me the first time I saw her . |
| 7 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 8 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 9 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 10 | Interesting Pauline at work , she 's ever so hurt , could n't get over it , she came up to me the other day she said , hello , how long has it been we have n't seen one another for two months . |
| 11 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 12 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |
| 13 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 15 | In highlighted pen that you know so when he goes out with someone in ninete , in two thousand he 'll say to someone the last time I went out with someone was in nineteen ninety three . |
| 16 | The longer you survived after giving assets to someone the less tax they paid on the gift . |
| 17 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 18 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 19 | I said to him the other morning I said do that again I said look , I 'll get you out of bed . |
| 20 | I 'll put it to him the next time he kidnaps me . |
| 21 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 22 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 23 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |