Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a big deal to me at the time , ’ Maria snapped , her tolerance of his perpetual self-absorption vanished along with her brilliant mood . |
| 3 | Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker . |
| 4 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 5 | The story has a familiar ring to it in the sense that women are seldom encouraged to be in top positions at work the world over . |
| 6 | The tape has been offered to a number of research institutions who have agreed to provide feedback to us on a pilot basis . |
| 7 | Er and you 'd get some feedback to us from the Neighbourhood Watch point of view er and it 's not peculiar to Neighbourhood Watches but er from , from your point of view you also have access to the police in that er eventually there should be a liaison built up , not overnight I mean it wo n't , it wo n't happen tomorrow morning either , but there 'll be a lia liaison between the , the local police officer and yourselves er and if there 's any problems that you may have , you know and you 'll be able to communicate back to them . |
| 8 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 9 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 10 | Angel did not mind , because he was planning to introduce Tess to them as a d'Urberville as well as a dairymaid , some months later . |
| 11 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 12 | It gave him a qualm to realise that a large part of his need to see her again stemmed from her usefulness to him as a go between . |
| 13 | Why devote a chapter to him in a book which explicitly encourages its readers to pay attention to this music ? |
| 14 | The decision to accord a full chapter to it in the Constitution on the Church , and prior to that on the hierarchy , was symbolically one of the most important the Council ever took . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , ’ Fabia agreed , but what was more than obvious to her , with Ven stressing , ‘ specifically ’ stressing , that Lubor talk to her on an impersonal basis only , was that he still did n't trust her not to ask personal questions about him . |
| 16 | It is an important point of reference to banks because it is probably the best indication to them of the cost of raising immediate marginal funds . |
| 17 | As members of a Pathfinder Squadron they were allowed to wear a small brass albatross on their left breast pocket , immediately under their wings , and this was the only indication to anyone outside the RAF that they were in any way out of the ordinary . |
| 18 | All the services listed offer free guidance to anyone over the age of 19 who has been away from education for a significant period . |
| 19 | In all but one , the salesman went to great lengths to explain the engine and its features to my husband and to sell a car to me on the basis of its sleek lines or attractive upholstery . |
| 20 | If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Evil ’ , she wrote , ‘ does get into bricks , tragedy into mortar , ’ It is new light to me on the properties of bricks and mortar . |
| 22 | And certainly from my submission to you in the Selby district , I have shown that er the the plan which was enclosed with the written evidence . |
| 23 | She turned to him , pressing her mouth to his in a long , drugging kiss , while her hands slid tantalisingly over his hips in a blatant invitation . |
| 24 | The entrance to one at the east end of Loch Gorm , which can be seen when the water level is low , is rather puzzling and could as easily be the remains of a wall as a path to the island , particularly as when seen in those conditions there appear to be the walls of a square building on the south side about halfway to the island , and if the water level has been raised to improve the fishing it may not be a true crannog . |
| 25 | He is lead to changes of the dosing of remedies because the ‘ variety among patients as to their irritability , age , spiritual and bodily development necessitate a great variety in their treatment and administration to them of the doses of medicines ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 27 | By his coming to us as a human being and by his suffering , dying and rising for us , our lives have meaning and hope . |
| 28 | Hotel-keeping 's double Dutch to me at the moment — but I catch on fast , Michael . |
| 29 | The aims of this new coalition were to press the British government into acting more forcefully against terrorism and to force a return to something like the old majority rule at Stormont . |
| 30 | so I actually felt that although that presentation was very good , it was almost like a blind presentation because there was no benefit to him at the end of it because he , he did n't have , you had n't got those finishing point |