Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps when I get a minute to meself we can have a picnic of our own , ’ he suggested . |
| 2 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , why do n't you use the money that Geoffrey and Jean gave you with al buy something and then you can write to them and tell them what you 've cos it 's a fortnight since your birthday , it 's time you 're writing to them they 'll think you 're a most ungrateful child if you do n't write and say thank you . |
| 3 | I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property . |
| 4 | Erm , and we put to them they ca n't take a simplistic approach of saying this is what 's to cover the cost in selling from there and that is all that 's available to place people more appropriately in the community . |
| 5 | And when you talk to them they will say we can find out whether they 've got a criminal record or not , how can they offer that service in the public domain without having access to your computer ? |
| 6 | I hope that when planning directors have the new powers available to them they will be able to take faster and more effective action against unauthorised development . |
| 7 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 8 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 9 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 10 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 11 | that since it was up to them they 'd rather not . |
| 12 | Because we 're so used to them we may have relaxed our guard . |
| 13 | To them we should respond with greater fervour . |
| 14 | If the conventional realms of activity are not accompanied by a sense of security then — we will feel less committed to them we will be more likely to ‘ take the law into our own hands ’ ; insecurity is associated with lawlessness . |
| 15 | He also had an unerring instinct , when faced with awkward legal problems , of finding solutions to them which would work in practice . |
| 16 | Opportunities have become available to them which would have been impossible in hospital . |
| 17 | If he went to them he would have to admit that he left her there . |
| 18 | Their neighbours are all on the dole and they all talk about food : " I 'll say to them you ca n't be starving on Wednesday because it 's not Friday — giro day , " says their next-door neighbour . |
| 19 | but until he shows national agreements to them you 'll never get that agreed will ? |
| 20 | Well that have actually been told that if anything comes in providing This is what I ca n't get through We 've said to them you can bring your radios in but give to Brian first . |
| 21 | If he came over to them she would have to introduce him , and that thought was enough to bring on near hysteria . |
| 22 | If God was good to them she 'd find no hide nor hair of Frank Arbuthnot . |
| 23 | I was told I should lend that classroom to them I ca n't ge really get out first and that should be my turn to be out first today . |
| 24 | I always said to them I would much prefer to supply fifty per cent of the monthly usage , spread it out throughout the year . |
| 25 | To them I 'll say you 'll find things are strange for a time but , with the help of your colleagues , you 'll soon find your feet but , for yourselves , avoid falling into the bad habits of others . |
| 26 | The Irish have settled into this country and there are communities of them all over do they go and see your concerts and if they do that must mean a great deal to them I should think ? |
| 27 | I could , I could go and I could go and take if there 's , you know , if they have n't , no nothing awful 's to them I could go and take some pics of those . |
| 28 | So I 'm out and about and quite often I go and visit people in their own homes out of the back and beyond of nowhere cos I just called out as a result of that and I suddenly thought I I 'm highly vulnerable to them I could be subject to attack like anybody else , how will I protect myself ? |
| 29 | We 're all aware that for th for their number patients with superficial bladder cancer provide an enormous amount of our workload , and for reasons partly of husbanding our precious resources and also because lots of these patients come up with negative checks reducing the amount of irritation and upset to them it would be useful if we could do less than we do . |
| 30 | There are other features of prison life , however , which could only occur in this especially artificial environment , but before moving on to them it may be useful to concentrate on some of the prisoners ' own views of Maidstone . |