Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 2 | There were statements of intent , exhortations , graphs and charts all aimed at producing improvements in what was to me at that time the nebulous concept of ‘ Quality ’ . |
| 3 | I am starkly awake , and she delivers to me through sleepy lips the cause of her outcry . |
| 4 | Now it seems to me in some respects the gulf is pretty wide and therefore can only do that if Noble Lords are good enough to try and sort of meet the divide . |
| 5 | Michelle has n't done it frequently but i you know I would never even talk to me like that Sarah the little erm madam that she is , just like Kerry , which they are ! |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 7 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 8 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 9 | This attitude was kept alive by the strong sense of the permanence of human arrangements in the matter of property , which seems to us of all things the least permanent : gifts to the Church were made to last till the Day of Judgement , and many of the documents in the Canterbury archives invoked God and all his saints on the Day of Judgement to destroy those who violated their provisions . |
| 10 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |