Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having visited Tullie House , I can confirm that , as my hon. Friend says , it is remarkable , and I commend it to hon. Members on both sides of the House . |
| 2 | So I made it to 100 and we won the game shortly after . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Even I trust you to that degree , ’ she agreed shakily , smiling in spite of herself . |
| 4 | It 's a promise I expect him to equal . |
| 5 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
| 6 | I I say it to all whoever comes in here and they 're |
| 7 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 8 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 9 | I reduced it to 14 and regular hours . |
| 10 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 11 | I put it to this hundred , would you spend two thousand pounds on having a tummy tuck if your tummy needing tucking ? , |
| 12 | I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat . |
| 13 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 14 | I give them to that solicitor that , I were talking to . |
| 15 | ‘ I showed it to some of my friends and they have had a good laugh about it . |
| 16 | I threw it to one side . |
| 17 | I have a mind , why ca n't I use it to some good in a way that will give me satisfaction if nothing else ? |
| 18 | ‘ I owe it to these orphans to make their life as easy as possible , ’ says this diminutive woman . |
| 19 | ‘ I wrote a postcard to my parents , ’ recalls Margaret Olmer ; ‘ I ca n't remember if I addressed it to both . |
| 20 | I remember it to this day . ’ |
| 21 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 22 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 23 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 24 | ‘ I treated you to that , did I ? ’ |
| 25 | He said to Rain : ‘ She left them behind when I took her to Nice . |
| 26 | So , before I left London , I took it to one of the maids at Richmond Palace , and do you know what she said ? ’ |
| 27 | I took it to this kid at |
| 28 | So I sent it to another in New York , and he took it . ’ |
| 29 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
| 30 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |