Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |
| 2 | And our comment to them at that particular stage was , ‘ Well , if that 's the case that 's the case . |
| 3 | I thought you would be interested to see some of the questions raised by Members so far , and I am enclosing these and the responses to them at this current stage of our thinking . |
| 4 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
| 5 | ‘ We realized that decorators were buying our fabric and wallpaper in bulk and asking for a discount , as was available to them with any other brand . ’ |
| 6 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |
| 7 | Subsequently , this project will investigate the bases of the American decisions and the response to them by those third world governments accused of politicizing the agencies , the professional secretariats of the agencies coping with the consequences of American withdrawal and the views of the British government which has suggested a similar withdrawal from UNESCO , but from no other specialised agencies . |
| 8 | They will want to place the promises that Labour is now making to them in that historical context . |
| 9 | Life on the ‘ end ’ offers the actual or aspiring hooligan an alternative career as part of the ‘ Rowdies ’ : ‘ This ‘ career structure ’ gives some young people a sense of individual achievement within a semi-formal setting opportunities denied to them in most other institutions ' ( Marsh , 1976:348 ) . |
| 10 | The Wagner Report set the goal that residential care should offer a positive experience : ‘ actively aimed at providing every resident with the highest quality of life of which they are capable and indeed a better life than would be open to them in any other environment ’ ( ibid. , p. 8 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I am just so relieved we are on the verge of getting a much more sensible system of payment to them after all this time . ’ |
| 12 | I thought he had been right , and that what happened to me on that oily beach was all I was fit for . |
| 13 | I remember the pleasant surprise I had when Olivia Manning , sitting next to me on some poetry-reading platform ( the ICA ? ) turned to her husband after my reading and remarked to him — a BBC radio producer — ‘ Now there 's a poet who knows how to read poetry . |
| 14 | He 's talked to me about all that stuff too . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman writes to me about any individual cases , I shall respond in detail . |
| 16 | You never wanted to discuss your work , you would n't talk to me about any personal problems ; sometimes I used to think that there was n't one single damned thing we could talk about . ’ |
| 17 | I wonder if I can insist , it is n't a matter where and they have spoken to me about this particular case and |
| 18 | It is an a matter where Miss has spoken to me about this particular case and it |
| 19 | ‘ If you persist in clinging to me in that limpet-like way , Caroline , I will not answer for the consequences … ’ |
| 20 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
| 21 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 22 | ‘ If you continue to speak to me in that cold manner , ’ she answered , ‘ I shall say nothing at all . |
| 23 | The problem was that I could not be sure if this was your true feeling for me , or just your terror of Mathilde 's ghosts making you cling to me in that delightful and extremely inflammatory fashion . |
| 24 | I include it here because at no point was it ever put to me in such bald and comprehensible terms . |
| 25 | Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . |
| 26 | ‘ What matters to me in this cooperative , ’ he wrote to his wife from Helsinki , ‘ is that they are all well-established people , with left-wing sympathies . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you remember what you said to me in this very room when I begged you to marry me and you told me that you were going to marry him ? |
| 28 | His friendship was a great comfort to me in those bleak days . |
| 29 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 30 | The lacquered fingerboard felt to me like those few maple-boarded Les Pauls that Gibson made during the late '70s/early '80s . |