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 .
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