Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , if she 's got a young family , I mean , nine times out of ten it 's her that 's got to watch them rather than saying to the husband , oh I 'm off to play football dear ! |
| 2 | If you are unable to obtain any Amber product in your area or would like tickets for the ‘ open day ’ , contact them on or write to , . |
| 3 | He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea . |
| 4 | Moreover , I have preferences regarding the happiness of others which are not concerned with them merely as means to certain feelings for myself . |
| 5 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 6 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 7 | Dorcas called them over and pointed to the tank above them . |
| 8 | He regards them not as belonging to a particular branch , but to the Area ; hence , ‘ transfer ’ has been erased from the Dictionary . |
| 9 | He did n't like to think he was the kind of person who took things from strangers in pubs and then passed them off as presents to girls he was supposed to love . |
| 10 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You told me once that going to a Workhouse was simply exchanging one prison for another . |
| 12 | That would have helped me more than going to prison and mixing with all them people and just getting depressed and fed up and full of hatred . |
| 13 | The band finally reached the end of their last number and she all but leapt to her feet , switching on her brightest , falsest smile as she looked down at him . |
| 14 | Driving you home or driving to wherever you want to go to in style on Trent F M , more updates later . |
| 15 | I mean for him to ring you back and speak to you , i i he , he 's been concerned about it as well . |
| 16 | Have you had any , anybody else phone them up or written to them ? |
| 17 | Molly pointed to the bright bunch on the scrubbed table and Giovanna gathered them up and strode to a hook on the dresser where they dangled with all their labels . |
| 18 | He screwed them up and sank to the floor . |
| 19 | Harvey helped me up and pointed to a concrete runway just below us . |
| 20 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 21 | They stared at each other for a moment in tense silence ; then gripping the aide of the bedclothes , he swung them upwards and exposed to his amazed gaze her grey outdoor coat . |
| 22 | Lorton showed them out and went to the kitchen to pour himself a drink . |
| 23 | She edged them out and scrambled to her feet . |
| 24 | If you leave them behind and take to the lanes you 'll rarely see a car . |
| 25 | The boys thanked her politely and returned to the rest of the royal party grinning and clutching their gifts . |
| 26 | ‘ He married Diana and he should have made much more of an effort with her rather than turning to another woman for support , ’ she said . |
| 27 | but y I ca n't I have to say and I know right ca n't give her what she wants is somebody to sit down somebody to sit her down and talk to her and you ca n't give her the benefit of that because it 's a little battle right between the two silly little girls if you like and if that j if that happens had won right and that 's the way will feel it |
| 28 | When they had done her back , they turned her over and set to work on her front . |
| 29 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 30 | Gigantic , monstrous and powerful ; waiting on the stairs for him to open the door wide , so that it could seize him , drag him away and do to him what it had done to Pearce ? |