Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this poem we see their shared Jewishness , and the ‘ irreverence ’ ( as some would see it ) they each had for the Tradition — at least for that view of it which some espoused ; we also see a shared disdain for rabbinic ( and priestly ) logic , to them both a form of mental death . |
| 2 | But most of us experience periods of low self-esteem at different times and some — particularly If they have been unhappy in their early life — seem to be permanently stuck with such a poor impression of themselves and their own worth that ‘ self-esteem ’ is to them just a word which applies to other people more fortunate than themselves . |
| 3 | I talk to them once a month normally , but more frequently since the war began . |
| 4 | It suggests to me either an act of personal revenge or , alternatively , a demonstration to encourage the others , as the French say . ’ |
| 5 | I understand that you will be faxing to me today a request for banker 's details and credit references . |
| 6 | Perkin 's absence was to me almost a shock , so accustomed had I become to his being there . |
| 7 | Similarly , Benjamin 's description of cinematic form provokes immediate comparisons with the potential of recording and mixing techniques ( mike-positioning , rebalancing , dubbing , and so on ) for musical ‘ montage ’ and an ‘ analytical ’ revelation of new sound details and relationships ( for instance , Elvis Presley 's ‘ voice ’ — that is , the vocal ‘ image ’ we hear on his records — seems to me precisely a product of this kind of process ) . |
| 8 | Of course , if you prefer to talk to someone then an interview can be easily arranged . |
| 9 | Another famous conventional melody-and-bass , ‘ Ruggiero ’ ( to which originally a stanza from Ariosto 's Orlando furioso , xliv , 61 , was sung ) , also made probably its first appearance in a Spanish source , the Tratado de glosas ( treatise on ornamental variation ) ( Rome , 1553 ) Of Diego Ortiz . |
| 10 | That the petitioners beg earnestly to press the consideration of these circumstances upon the Presbytery in the hope that they shall use every effort to obtain services of some servant of Christ who may promote his cause among so neglected and spiritually destitute a community , to which perhaps a parallel will not be found in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 11 | Or is I come to you just a projection from the voice of the Enemy , saying to Frodo what he wants to hear , putting words in the mouth but not in the heart , creating ugly fictions as he does later with the phantasmal corpses of the Dead Marshes ? |
| 12 | Had he imagined it , or had Chung Hu-yan come to him only an hour back with news of another attack ? |
| 13 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 14 | I spoke to him quite a bit you know . |
| 15 | ‘ Annie 's been chatting to him quite a lot , lately . |
| 16 | She was trapped in the middle lane , there was a solid wall of lorries to her left , and to her right a blur of fast cars . |
| 17 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |
| 18 | The directorship , for which he had struggled for years , represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights . |
| 19 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 20 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |
| 21 | THERE has always been some doubt as to what exactly a cotinga is . |
| 22 | Will you fly to us tomorrow a representative who can lay down principles and answer specific questions . |
| 23 | So it actually comes to us quite a bit smaller than when it 's filled in by them . |