Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come kiss me and tell me you forgive me for exposing you to so much danger and distress . |
| 2 | But he did say that er it 'll take three weeks before he can get back to me about sending me to the Law |
| 3 | Then , in 1811 , he cruelly disposed of the remaining senior mamluks , massacring them after entertaining them to a feast in the citadel . |
| 4 | Thank you for inviting me to the information evening last week at St Thomas ' . |
| 5 | Welcome and thank you for inviting me to your ceremony . |
| 6 | Thank you for allowing me to . . |
| 7 | Thank you for allowing me to . |
| 8 | Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess . |
| 9 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 10 | After the show , ’ said the fräulein , following an emotional and discursive preamble , ‘ the dresser woman I told you about introduced us to a man called Fedorov . |
| 11 | There 's nothing to prevent you from unburdening yourself to me right here and now if you wish to do so . ’ |
| 12 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 13 | Check with your local Gas Board showroom or CORGI installer , and have your flue and chimney surveyed by them before committing yourself to one . |
| 14 | Probable misconceptions about a consultant supporter 's role have to be handled , credibility and relevance of one 's own experience need to be established in a non-assertive but authoritative way ; appreciation of the teachers ' professional expertise needs to be conveyed , together with an awareness of the difficulties that can prevent them from exercising it to its fullest extent ; and it needs to be spelt out clearly what such a group would be able to offer and what , together , one may reasonably hope to achieve — one must not raise hopes of cures for all ills . |
| 15 | He blamed it all on business , but could not resist taunting her for expecting him to be at h-er beck and call , while disapproving that he was rich . |
| 16 | To her , as to Edmund , the question of legitimacy is a nuisance to be subverted : When Goneril 's ‘ trusty servant ’ , Oswald , bears a letter from her to Edmund , Regan attempts to corrupt him into giving it to her ( IV.v.20ff . ) . |
| 17 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 18 | An ambulance crew tried to resuscitate him before taking him to Arrowe Park Hospital where he died soon afterwards . |
| 19 | It is supplied on a single disk and the Install program deletes the Easy Project data from it after translating it to a blank data disk in the second drive , leaving the A disk as systems disk . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid it is , ’ said Breeze , and he rescued it from its watery grave , and shook it before handing it to her . |
| 21 | Lift the stencil carefully , and rinse and dry it before moving it to the next position . |
| 22 | And if you 're leaving the boat at moorings , do n't forget to either take the engine home with you , LOCKED in the boot of your car , or secure it by chaining it to the mast or inside the cabin . |
| 23 | I 'd have liked to prolong it by asking you to supper , but … ’ |
| 24 | When I expressed my appreciation of the honour he had done me by inviting me to his coronation , he replied that as the eldest son of his trusted friend , to whom he owed so much , it was proper that I should be present . |
| 25 | I made him take me by giving myself to him like a slave . |
| 26 | When God appeared to Abraham in the guise of three strangers in need of hospitality , Abraham greeted them by bowing himself to the ground once ( 18.2 ) . |
| 27 | He had unfortunately proceeded to mar them by fastening them to strips of card with paper clips , which had rusted and left their foul trail on the bookmarks . |