Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't said much to me apart from announcing themselves as Detective-Sergeant Hatchard and Detective Constable White , and even when they got back inside , Hatchard talked to the pathologist while White went off for a snoop around , as policemen do . |
| 2 | As this was long before I had any real experience of life myself it was hardly surprising that Shakespeare 's comments should not have meant much to me then . |
| 3 | It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic . |
| 4 | She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside . |
| 5 | My best wishes for the start of your classes in September , good luck to those of you starting new classes and especially to our newly qualified teachers . |
| 6 | Such giving lay not only in the tradition of church patronage established by his royal Anglo-Saxon predecessors , but must have come naturally to him anyway . |
| 7 | Stuart touched her on the arm — not a gesture I had ever seen come naturally to him before — and muttered , ‘ I told you not to believe anything he said . ’ |
| 8 | One moment he loved them like a brother , then he 'd turn away and never want to speak fondly to them again . |
| 9 | She wanted to rehearse all her wisdom out loud to someone so that she could find out if she still believed it herself . |
| 10 | I think you could give it , that one all to himself then . |
| 11 | She had spoken more warmly to him tonight than she had ever done when she was unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she liked . |
| 12 | Ring or write to Harry Townsend and if you have information about your teams for inclusion in this column , then write only to me direct ! |
| 13 | At the least , Swegen 's victories are likely to have owed something not only to his doubtless considerable abilities as a commander , but also to an administration capable of utilising resources effectively and controlling the country in his absence . |
| 14 | Never belong only to us again . |
| 15 | It is only the amount of relief granted that changes , with higher rate taxpayers now treated identically to everyone else . |
| 16 | ‘ Not a soul , ’ he said and waved anew to somebody else . |
| 17 | When I went to the antenatal clinic for my very first check-up , this elderly doctor burst through the door , looked at me and said , " You should n't be having this baby , you should be giving it away to somebody less fortunate . " |
| 18 | Say , you wanted find out something and you , you 've got ta one , one 's got ta give so much weight away to something well gallop me galloping them in extraordinary ways to find out whether he 's any good or not . |
| 19 | The last kind of strategy for denying responsibility is to give it away to someone else . |
| 20 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 21 | All the best to everyone there — you all tried brilliantly . |
| 22 | The best way to buy guitar strings is to find the ones that feel the best to you personally . ’ |
| 23 | That is due not just to its comparatively high transport costs but to its low density . |
| 24 | Not that Crispin was a weak man , but he was a very busy one , and had to be content to leave the management of their joint lives largely to his highly capable wife . |
| 25 | I had long intended making this proposition to the Secretary of State , but I was urged sooner to it perhaps because I felt that I was reduced in circumstances and thrown from my position in Society , and I hoped by a grand effort to establish a permanent claim on the consideration of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 26 | Among them , young men with shining , pointed shoes astride snarling Vespas shouted , Ciao bellissima but usually to someone else . |
| 27 | When the female was close to laying , the alpha male stayed close to her almost all the time , but still had to spend almost 30 minutes in every hour chasing the beta male away . |
| 28 | It had got amazingly close to her too . |
| 29 | It was funny how quickly she had got used to it , sitting there with them watching her while she swabbed her nipple and lifted the baby close to her so that he could reach it . |
| 30 | Close to her now , and conscious of how quickly dusk had fallen , he was flooded with images , a deluge that swept ideas and impressions together in a cataract of intellectual frenzy . |