Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
2 | Right : Identify callers before opening the door to them with Friedland 's Password doorphone . |
3 | No , it is nothing less than God 's truth mediated to them by God 's Spirit ( 2:9 ) . |
4 | One evening a black-edged envelope was delivered to me at Herbert 's rooms . |
5 | Two junior ministers complained to me of Portillo 's ideological zeal in cabinet committee . |
6 | Shortly after my visit to Mavhinje , and completely unexpectedly , the news was brought to me of paolo 's death from meningitis in the hospital in Parma . |
7 | Only one photograph of a newly installed chairman has been sent to me since January 's Divisional AGMs . |
8 | A couple of years later I was telephoned by a BBC producer called Ron Webster , who said he wanted to talk to me about Mountbatten 's obituary programme . |
9 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
10 | In a high , squeaky voice , she said , ‘ Come to me in Jesus 's name ! ’ |
11 | Lloyd was concentrating on miming what looked to me like Mozart 's Turkish March . |
12 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
13 | It would be insulting to someone of Walker 's stature to pretend otherwise . |
14 | And , to someone with Marc 's undoubted ambition and sheer grit , he probably seems hopelessly in need of a helping hand . |
15 | I mean had they had they sold to someone outside Bishop 's Stortford |
16 | Turning to leave he saw a jiffy-bag of formidable bulk addressed to himself in Sixsmith 's tremulous hand . |
17 | The night before , these three had blended together as if it was the easiest thing in the world , forming a new , three-headed animal talking comfortably to itself through Francie 's hands and Aunt Margaret 's lips and fingers and Finn 's feet . |
18 | The final thing I want to say to you about children 's services is , we have to , we have , having great trouble breaking into prevention . |
19 | If words or phrases are used which do not mean anything to you ask to have them explained to you in layman 's terms . |
20 | It was so disappointing , but we had to go to something in King 's Lynn . ’ |
21 | I said then you 're not at his mercy because anybody to whose at Pete 's mercy will suffer . |
22 | Limply she fell back against the unyielding scrubland , sobbing and crying , numb to everything but Fernando 's flutter of consoling kisses across her face and throat . |
23 | It was the first time she had ever referred to herself as Jake 's sister . |
24 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
25 | The Other Woman has a category to herself in Silhouette 's construction of the necessary elements of the romance novel , an indication of the extent to which she is considered to be an essential ingredient : ‘ The Other Woman Usually means over sophisticated , well groomed . |
26 | I handed it to him at arm 's length , not knowing what he was about to do . |
27 | And I said to him for God 's sake stop bloody well moaning cos we 've all got ta muck in ! |
28 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
29 | He infuriated Pilger , who referred to him as Sutton 's ‘ butler ’ . |
30 | But that was the word Morse repeated to the first question Lewis put to him about Lucy 's progress at 8.30 a.m. on the Tuesday . |