Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many people , Christmas is a time to have an apocalyptic hangover or binge ; the Christian bit is an unnecessary encumbrance to them . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're right kind to me and I like it there . |
| 3 | We 're waiting for new stocks to arrive and will forward the mini hi-fi to you as soon as stocks are delivered . |
| 4 | Fortunately for him , he was always in a lower division to me . ’ |
| 5 | Most colonists remained loyal subjects of the King , but they paid very little money to him and his government and they received very little help , financial or military , from it . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't talk that non-talk to me ! |
| 7 | We will be making a very strong plea to them . |
| 8 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 9 | ‘ Are n't you being rather melodramatic ? ’ he said in a deep , cultured voice with a deceptively lazy lilt to it . |
| 10 | Rune had never pretended an emotional attachment to her — in fact quite the opposite ! |
| 11 | I laughed at the times people had used that sentence to me . |
| 12 | She was , as Ward had said , rusty as hell , but behind the rust she had a solid look to her . |
| 13 | It would be a right insult to them to back off , and as you say , their goodwill could be handy . |
| 14 | She 's the complete opposite to me , Sir Edmund , honest as the day is long . ’ |
| 15 | Not until the following year , when Majorca was forced to submit , did armed resistance to him in Spain come to an end . |
| 16 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 17 | And he asked me to a ask you to when they ra give the tape back if they could possibly supply a copy of it , of that tape to them . |
| 18 | ‘ Remember , I 'm a complete stranger to him . ’ |
| 19 | If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness . |
| 20 | emphasizes the rigid formality of Brutus ' speech which is very clever , but is contain hardly any emotional side to it . |
| 21 | No , so it will be possible talk to them then ? |
| 22 | She looked mutinous , then lifted a pouting mouth to his and squeaked protestingly as he pushed her backwards onto the bed and on top of her new hat . |
| 23 | The voice had an eerie metallic ring to it . |
| 24 | And it she had a right talk to him and he said , Well that 's it . |
| 25 | a swing of the pendulum away from uncritical acceptance of ‘ New Mathematics ’ programmes , sometimes manifest in overt political opposition to them ( Nigeria and Malawi ) , more commonly by a re-emphasis placed on the values and processes of basic numeracy , e.g. tables , measurement , number bonds ( Swaziland and Lesotho ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Your hatred is a matter of complete indifference to me . |
| 27 | The decentralized authority has a somewhat dated ring to it , in that it retains a faith in the ability of the local state to decide and provide . |
| 28 | His voice had a hollow echo to it , as if there was nothing inside him . |
| 29 | The Left became increasingly middle-class and this reinforced the already strong opposition to it among trade union officials . |
| 30 | Fernand indicated with outspread hands and a jerk of his shoulders that the whereabouts of Monsieur Gebrec were a matter of total indifference to him . |