Example sentences of "to [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always brought to them first thing in the morning . |
| 2 | It was also indicated to them that while on the grade they would perform a limited range of duties as defined in a list which was published at that time . |
| 3 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I will never stand in your way ! ’ she cried to them that evening in the bedroom . |
| 5 | ‘ We all went to them Cadillac Bar for lunch which was really good Mexican food . |
| 6 | There are rooms awaiting you , my ladies , and you , my lord , and hot water being taken up to them this instant for you . ’ |
| 7 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 8 | Miss O'Keeffe 's work suggests to me that kind of passionate mysticism that clouds the seeing eye with visions false to it , like some sweet drug . |
| 9 | It seems to me that art of all kinds emerges out of deep human needs , needs that can not be met anywhere else . |
| 10 | It appears to me that default in the sense of breach of duty must persist after the act or neglect until the damage is suffered . |
| 11 | It seems to me that part of the problem of players complaining about the pressure of the modern game is that they have not attuned themselves properly to what is required . |
| 12 | But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here . |
| 13 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 14 | That seems to me one way of dealing with inquiries about telephone numbers . |
| 15 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 16 | Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ? |
| 17 | never went to me spare bit of paper probably eventually but he had n't got time for that . |
| 18 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 19 | Happy birthday to me happy birthday to me me me I 'm going someone 's going to get the I know they are . |
| 20 | Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question . |
| 21 | lesson he said to me just look at Christmas in that house ! |
| 22 | So I must say I entirely agree with Heather on this , it seems to me inevitable logic of Freud 's theory and erm my own view is that group psychoanalysis is a contradiction in terms , you can not do psychoanalysis in a group of this and those who say they can I think have n never understood what psychoanalysis is all about and are misleading the public and people pay good money for it . |
| 23 | It 's not the point , Jean put o said to me last week about the fucking . |
| 24 | That 's what happened to me old man in the cleaning business , I mean with you could write your own cheque virtually , but they , they had sort of like a three year , three year back log on painting , they just did n't pay anybody . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , another Scot , Margaret Letham , a former British champion and beaten semi-finalist last year , began her challenge with a superb two sets to nothing nine-end victory over Jersey 's Sue Dingle . |
| 26 | For those to whom this type of style and experience are their most important consideration we have collected the very best of the very best — our Golden Choice . |
| 27 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 28 | ‘ Responsibility is accepted in the preparation of this report for the skill and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent surveyor and valuer but the information it contains is for the confidential information only of the clients for whom it is prepared and of any building society , bank or other lender to whom written application for a mortgage advance has been made or will be made within 28 days after the date of this report . |
| 29 | What 's more , I 'd love you to lecture to my confounded wife in that fashion and tell her that her rotten complacent way of life is over . |
| 30 | ‘ They can do what they like for me — blow the place up for all I care — I 'll be off to my mobile home in Lytham St Annes before long . ’ |