Example sentences of "[pron] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was alongside them , to reveal himself to them in human terms , and to rescue them from the self-induced estrangement into which they had fallen . |
| 2 | Chapter Five argued that the main problem in discussing the peasant question in the reign of Nicholas I is explaining why he addressed himself to it at all , not why he did relatively little . |
| 3 | The main problem in discussing the emancipation may be explaining why Alexander addressed himself to it halfheartedly rather than why he addressed himself to it at all . |
| 4 | He sacrificed strength to send himself to you in that way . |
| 5 | ‘ Just remember that your contract commits you to us for two years , ’ he said coolly . |
| 6 | Only in our passion did this not suggest itself to me as mean retention on his part . |
| 7 | His body , as though accustomed to her shape , her rhythm , accommodated itself to hers in perfect match . |
| 8 | and what I want to do is to look at it er over that particular period so I can explain everything to you in full because there are benefits to you in terms of tax savings |
| 9 | Her father was explaining something to her in that overloud , careful voice which he used to her mother , the voice which said : ‘ I know you are too stupid to understand this but I will talk slowly and loudly and hope that you wo n't try my patience too far . ’ |
| 10 | Well can I say something to you in that case then ? |
| 11 | Isabelle had loved another man — had given herself to him with disastrous consequences — and here was Sabine , the living proof , the cuckoo in the conventional Russell family nest . |
| 12 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 13 | Jenna left the meal to keep hot and went to freshen up , telling herself that she would consider it coldly and then decide , but in reality she was churned up inside , a desire to hide from this uppermost , but a deep-seated and almost morbid curiosity urging her to go to France and see the man who was nothing to her at all , not even a face to remember . |
| 14 | Eileen was dead and it meant nothing to them at all . |
| 15 | And I would go in and I I never said nothing to him at first did I ? but I just could n't take it any more . |
| 16 | On some days Marcus said nothing to him at all , while at the same time making it , without word or gesture , clear that his presence was helpful . |
| 17 | How last year the crop had meant nothing to him at all ; how , without understanding , he had walked about the harbour and warehouses of Episkopi , and the misuse of the Order 's cargo of sugar had been simply a matter noted and used as a playing-counter . |
| 18 | His hold on her arm seemed to be doing nothing to him at all . |
| 19 | Say nothing to him about this . |
| 20 | I 've killed a man , he thought , but the realisation meant nothing to him in that mad moment . |
| 21 | ‘ But Mack said nothing to me about this , ’ the coroner said angrily . |
| 22 | It was a heavy leather-bound copy of Don Quixote , dramatically illustrated by a man whose name meant nothing to me at that time , Gustave Doré . |
| 23 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 24 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 25 | film a , the language meant nothing to me at all ! |
| 26 | Maybe that was n't strictly true , but at least I was in Yorkshire and a bus would take me to her in three hours . |
| 27 | It just is n't like you to leave me to it like that , especially with a new member of staff , and a medical officer at that . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ A temporary setback , ’ he declared , handing them to her with some water . |
| 29 | After that 's the spring term we 're into now , after Christmas erm health now there was there are packages and Catherine gave them to me on personal hygiene , things like that and I think Paul erm I know he would be keen he said , he 'd be keen to maybe put a package together with the help of all the form teachers plus myself and maybe do a bit into health , cos I mean you know it 's it 's |
| 30 | But she sells them to me for fifty pence a packet still . |