Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now try to imagine turning into that aisle , all those bodily reactions start to go off , and yet there is nothing there — no lion , nothing for you to be terrified about and yet your heart is beating faster , you 're sweating , feeling faint , breathing rapidly , and so on . |
| 2 | fifty pence each , right , erm , and er fill in the slips and either bring them back to us or send them off yourself to Headquarters , shall I put , I 'll put those out for anybody who feel they could sell them , it all , it all helps to raise money for Amnesty and helps to get them erm spend the money on the new prisoner 's . |
| 3 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 4 | He answered : ‘ The man told me that he was a detective , and that I should say nothing about him to anyone . ’ |
| 5 | They agreed that for the moment they would say nothing about it to Ebenezer . |
| 6 | Nuri was one of Egypt 's great landowners and the Khedive considered there was sufficient identity of interest between them for him to be able to use Nuri 's services without fear . |
| 7 | Whatever the merits of their looks , enough customers loved them for them to be sold out . |
| 8 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 9 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 10 | Although the KDP were also in revolt at the same time , there were too many differences between them for there to be any prospect of co-ordinated action . |
| 11 | I was hardly someone for her to be proud of , was I ? |
| 12 | ‘ It does n't do for someone like him to be away from the reins for too long . |
| 13 | Not that I expect someone like you to ’ |
| 14 | Going from window to window , he could see traces of the woman Susan had told him about , but Luke Mallen was a ghost in the place — nothing of him to be found ; except , in all that stillness , a sense of violence . |
| 15 | Gossip put nothing of himself to the test but his patience . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's a triumph for women for somebody like me to be on the cover of Playboy , because I do n't fall into the clichéd , subservient bimbo mode . |
| 17 | I think it 's a triumph for women for somebody like me to be on the cover of Playboy , because I do n't fall into the clichéd , subservient bimbo mode . |
| 18 | She wants somebody behind her to up her . |
| 19 | He went on to quote Michelet : ‘ A woman must breathe on you for you to be a man . |
| 20 | As I understand it Chair , what you 're saying is , that there are , at three there is a , a request for an exclusion of press photographers , but the convenience of press photography we 're saying that instead of taking immediately so that we 'd have to call them back here for the even later , we 're asking you for it to be taken at the end with the rest of exclusion |
| 21 | There is a small officers ' annex in the village itself for me to be impotent at , and it is on this hygienic apartment that we increasingly depend . |
| 22 | But that also is the case , I mean er er , a lot of time th the actual design of our houses does n't lend itself for us to actually look even if you 're you 're permanently looking out the window . |
| 23 | The handful of extracts , words of kitchen advice , recipes , menus , and descriptive passages I have chosen to quote are none of them to be found in The Best of Boulestin , the American-selected anthology published in England by Heinemann in 1952 and still available at 21s . |
| 24 | All the theorists refer to group authority , group decisions and group consensus , none of them to group accountability . |
| 25 | It would delight me to be able to buy you presents ; to take you with me to my friends ' houses , to the theatre , to Biarritz , to Cannes — wherever it pleased you to go . ’ |
| 26 | I 'll take you with me to his house . ’ |
| 27 | That 's why I 'm sending you with him to Lisbon . |
| 28 | It must have occurred to you that Dawn is probably very jealous — in particular of the fact that he took you with him to the zoo . ’ |
| 29 | It would be pointless it would be messy it would be inelegant and it would create the problem of the relations between the two , you 'd have to have transformations to get you from one to the other . |
| 30 | He brought nothing with him to Rose Cottage , and he took nothing away . |