Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 32 | I mean , I write things in a certain way , so I expect them to be played in a certain way . |
| 33 | But Victor will be watching , so I leave it to him . |
| 34 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 35 | I thought this was odd so I mentioned it to my bank , who were seriously unimpressed . |
| 36 | ‘ So I want you to be very brave while you listen to it . |
| 37 | When I mention the Heavenly EP to Right Said Fred it turns out that only Fred has heard it , so I play it to them . |
| 38 | That means he thought Maureen was his mother , so I gave him to her . |
| 39 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 40 | but I persuaded him that it would melt while he had his drink and to put it in my bag and er it was lunchtime when we got home and we were going some I , I ca n't remember what we were doing afterwards so I gave it to his mother , I thought she could share it . |
| 41 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 42 | And my father was her shepherd so nobody asks us to their houses , so I never met people like this before and Aunt Emily is trying to bring me out and she 's so sweet , so generous . |
| 43 | Seb guided Anna to a chair and sat her down , but instead of releasing his hand immediately she pulled him to her and her hand went up to his face , her finger-tips gently assessing his injuries . |
| 44 | To acknowledge it — as the cards insisted that she must — a portion of herself , was to recognize features which were paltry and despicable ; it forced the reluctant awareness that she was , in part at least , a smaller person than she believed herself to be . |
| 45 | When you listen to their records they 're always a lot slower than you perceive them to be . |
| 46 | Rather than you selling it to the boss and then all the trouble . |
| 47 | ‘ Look , Scott , we do n't want to be here any more than you want us to be here , ’ Gregson told him . |
| 48 | Nor was the conversation doing anything other than drag down her spirits , so she brought it to a close by saying , ‘ I must go back to the office . |
| 49 | He needed hobdaying and was rather on the temperamental side , so she sent him to Bill and me to see if he had any ability in the dressage sphere . ’ |
| 50 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 51 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 52 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 53 | He had nowhere to go , so she took him to her room , such as it was . |
| 54 | It 's too heavy for her to carry , so she pulls it to pieces with her beak , holding it tightly in her talons . |
| 55 | I thought , you either do it , so you do it to here and I bet he fell for it did he ? |
| 56 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 57 | So , having accepted that the 25SE is something other than we expected it to be , let's examine it more closely . |
| 58 | ‘ Games come earlier than we want them to , other times not quickly enough ! ’ |
| 59 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 60 | ‘ Not really , because it got so much bigger than we wanted it to straight away . |