Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 2 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 3 | I went out , I had n't even I 'd said hello to him , that was it . |
| 4 | I 'd made love to her class of Englishwoman before , and had no particular wish to renew the experience . |
| 5 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 6 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 7 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 8 | However , even if I 'd had access to the book at the time — he gave a signed copy to Mrs Goreng when he left and another to the American woman journalist , which I accounted a waste-it would not have been wise to argue . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean , could I have administered poison to Sir Thomas ? |
| 10 | Was it best to interfere with the cat 's instinct to play with its catch — or should I have left nature to her cruelty ? |
| 11 | Now I know that when I had made love to you that afternoon I was right to follow my instincts . ’ |
| 12 | On her last evening , after I had said goodbye to her , I happened to pass by a café in which she was sitting , pensively reading a newspaper . |
| 13 | Then I had said goodbye to all my friends . |
| 14 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 15 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 16 | " I 've said good-bye to Lizzie . |
| 17 | And now I 've given way to my emotions when I swore to my father I never would . |
| 18 | ‘ I have to confess , you 're not the first woman I 've made love to . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've had varying success with the women I 've made love to in the past , but I 've never made one throw up before ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Friends , ’ he was saying , ‘ I 've ordered brandy to be served to you all , so that we can celebrate my wedding properly . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got Ransom to Venus and through his first conversation with the ‘ Eve ’ of that world : a difficult chapter … |
| 22 | No I 've go I 've got access to several in |
| 23 | Someone had set light to a sofa on the second floor beneath a party on the floor above . |
| 24 | In other words , someone had set fire to the dacha , and the things had been stolen from it before the fire had started . |
| 25 | ‘ I have escaped marriage to a poisoner who killed someone dear to me . |
| 26 | I hope that I have done justice to at least some part of all hon. Members ' contributions . |
| 27 | With those introductory remarks , I hope that I have drawn attention to the firsts that we celebrate in this debate , but although those matters are important , matters of far greater importance form the substance of our debate . |
| 28 | I have drawn attention to the immense quantity , the rich variety , the problems posed by its retention , the difficulties with its analysis , and the opportunities that might be offered to future historians by contemporary electronic information resources . |
| 29 | As you know , for many years I have devoted time to families in my parish who foster babies for the charity , but now I feel I can do more . |
| 30 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |