Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] that [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | I commend that exercise to you but wo n't go into more detail about it now . |
2 | I commend that report to all hon. Members : it is a terrible indictment of the impotence of the federal Government and their inability to control their army . |
3 | Despite the fact that modern history grows old within a week , I commend that book to people who want to understand what is happening in that part of the world . |
4 | I drew that fact to the attention of magistrates — albeit unsuccessfully in my cases in Coventry and Wandsworth . |
5 | And I used that panic to my benefit . |
6 | May I express my satisfaction that the Prime Minister does not now take the reluctant attitude towards the establishment of a rouble stabilisation fund that he did in July and August last year when I put that proposal to him ? |
7 | ‘ I 've played for Utah Jazz against the very best in America — including Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan — in front of 40,000 fans and I only hope I put that experience to good use . |
8 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
9 | ‘ When you would not dine with me on Tuesday , I drove that evening to my parents in Plzeň , but had I known you would sound so pleased to hear me , I would have driven back sooner than last night , ’ he lost no time in taking advantage . |
10 | Erm , I would like to close by saying that erm I just thought it would be just a nice idea that I would invite any of you members of the Council and wives who have n't got anything else to do on Christmas morning , if you fancy popping up to my house for a glass of sherry or whatever , just on a casual basis as a little thank you for what you 've done over the erm over the last twelve months , I extend that invitation to you all and District Councillors if they wish to come and I would like to say , on behalf of the Council , that I hope you all have a , this is the last full meeting , and to everybody here I hope you have a very nice happy peaceful Christmas and I hope we all go into the new year with renewed vigour . |
11 | I consider that programme to be by far the best report on the effects of screen violence to be shown in recent years . |
12 | I link that image to the hot ecstasy . |
13 | I know that virtue to be in you Brutus/As well as I do know your outward favour . |
14 | I forwarded that letter to the Department of Employment and got the unsatisfactory answer that it fully understood my constituent 's position and his reluctance to consider a bank loan at this time , but was ’ sorry in this instance not to be able to offer an alternative suggestion . ’ |
15 | I chose that day to be a Mex because I figured that they were outnumbered by the Micks . |
16 | Oh no it 's alright Did I tell you I gave that letter to Mark ? |
17 | I leave that job to my son Tim , ’ said Etherington . |
18 | Now I think that approach to health care is fundamentally wrong , because you measure the needs of a patient in one moment and then suggest that the needs of that , that the needs of that patient will continue to be the same in subsequent weeks or subsequent months . |
19 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
20 | And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ? |
21 | The then of course when the wartime came along , the last war , I did n't , I did n't used to rush away , I , I had that sense to not just , to rush on to the with the rest of them , so I joined the fire brigade , the regular fire brigade . |
22 | So I recommend that conference to you and I hope it will be er an interesting one . |
23 | Being one who never liked to let an opportunity slip by , I wrote that afternoon to Hugh Campbell , CPR Press Officer in Winnipeg , requesting a rail pass to Vancouver and return . |
24 | I wrote that night to the box number . |
25 | Accordingly I reduce that figure to five thousand pounds . |
26 | I explained that feeling to my parents . |
27 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
28 | I think if you asked that question to any poet he 'd probably give that answer . |
29 | Well you 've got some number in there , so what do you want , you want that number to a power , to the power of one tenth . |
30 | Could I briefly go back to liquidated damages , because there 's nothing in the procedure , I think , that says what happens when you send that form to the client , he says , I have n't a clue . |