Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an obvious thing really that erm if someone dictates something to you and you have to repeat that word for word what would you normally do by |
| 2 | Something in them says something to something in me . |
| 3 | Something in me says something to something in them . |
| 4 | ( Araceae ) , which offers nothing to the ants . |
| 5 | The proposed council tax , which offers something to each lobby , is a slick political trick . |
| 6 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 7 | Like-for-like sales growth at Olympus was a hefty 18 per cent and Miss Selfridge chalked up gains of 17.4 per cent which owes something to comparatively grim weather in the previous year but also shows that mortgage pressures do not bear down on customers equally . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
| 9 | McEniff himself has plenty to be confident about . |
| 10 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 11 | We suppose that when somebody says something to us , it is meant to be informative , has some warrant in fact and is not a deliberate obfuscation or falsehood ( for further detail and discussion see Grice 1975 ; Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) . |
| 12 | You know , if somebody says something to you , aargh , you blow up , and you know . |
| 13 | ‘ Television is fast-moving and relies on much non-verbal communication , such as a quick glance between the characters , which means nothing to a young child , ’ says Dr Sheppard . |
| 14 | I received a stupid Certificate in Fine Art , which means nothing to me , but it pleases some . |
| 15 | This approach opened the way for extending judicial review to the exercise of power whether conferred by statute or common law or simply by virtue of the background principle of English law which permits anything to be done which is not prohibited by law . |
| 16 | A democracy … demands a dissemination of political understanding wide enough to make the people 's will in government an effective thing … the uninformed citizen … can be misled by the easy halftruth and the persuasive slogan ; or he can feel that understanding will always be beyond him and fall into that apathy which leaves everything to authority . |
| 17 | She 's since made a complete recovery and Mona 's consultant says she ows everything to Janet . |
| 18 | She never comes because he hangs himself , she has nobody to be nurse to , but her journey — were she to have made it — would prove as nugatory as his . |
| 19 | She has nothing to be envious of , if only she knew , Belinda thought wearily . |
| 20 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 21 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] That such a girl as this , cottage-born , who owes everything to my family and has an absolute dependence upon my pleasure should find me resistible . |
| 22 | But if she says something to me about it I mean if she says something to me about it I 'm not gon na act surprised I 'll say oh yeah I 've heard . |
| 23 | But if she says something to me about it I mean if she says something to me about it I 'm not gon na act surprised I 'll say oh yeah I 've heard . |
| 24 | Course , Richard who keeps everything to himself ! |
| 25 | She means nothing to me and nothing to Dysart either . |
| 26 | She means nothing to me . |
| 27 | In the summer men can wear shorts or whatever they like ( and sometimes they look revolting in them , too ! ) and no one says anything to them about it . |
| 28 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 29 | It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos . |
| 30 | Now , after every Hong Kong citizen with a television set has seen how Peking treats its dissenters , it offers nothing to a public whose mood has become one of restrained panic . |