Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 2 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 3 | If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done . |
| 4 | In the time available to me I shall answer as many as possible of the points that have been raised . |
| 5 | I can not stand it any longer , if someone does not come to me I will give up and be miserable for ever and perhaps go home of my own accord , write or wire to Uncle C. and say you are coming at once pleas darling , and come on Saturday or I will give up altogether and always wretched . |
| 6 | ‘ My life 's insured by the department , ’ he explains to Felicity , ‘ so that if anything happens to me you 'd get both a lump sum and a regular income . |
| 7 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 8 | In itself it could mean nothing ; in regard to him it could mean only that he was mad . |
| 9 | The clue is , of course , that if Archer 's coat was powder-stained his killer must have been someone known to him who could get up that close in the deserted night street where he met his end . |
| 10 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |