Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did not have time to talk to them all day ; I had my work to do . |
| 2 | I could listen to them all day long . ’ |
| 3 | He chatted to them all evening , then went home and fell asleep . |
| 4 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 5 | It 's always brought to them first thing in the morning . |
| 6 | It was also indicated to them that while on the grade they would perform a limited range of duties as defined in a list which was published at that time . |
| 7 | The anxiety of the papal reformers to put all clergy under a rule shows that experience suggested to them that celibacy could only be enforced on monks or folk living a quasi-monastic life . |
| 8 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 9 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 10 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 11 | It is in your reaction to them that misfortune lies . |
| 12 | ‘ I will never stand in your way ! ’ she cried to them that evening in the bedroom . |
| 13 | What Marx and Engels show is that since these ideas are examples of ideology , attributing to them causal primacy amounts to making them unquestionable , and to making the social order which they legitimate and organize — capitalism — free from possible challenge . |
| 14 | ‘ We all went to them Cadillac Bar for lunch which was really good Mexican food . |
| 15 | Expressing such a duty as a duty to further the interests of the enterprise is unhelpful , however , since the formulation has very limited information content : it fails to identify the relevant constituencies and gives no indication of what priority should be afforded to them inter se . |
| 16 | There are rooms awaiting you , my ladies , and you , my lord , and hot water being taken up to them this instant for you . ’ |
| 17 | erm Every year it does n't normally get in the press but we have to do a deal with all the federations abroad , the Swedes , the Danes , everybody and erm the Danes could n't erm accept what we put to them this year . |
| 18 | Right well I 'll get on to them this morning . |
| 19 | You saw to them this morning . |
| 20 | Right well I 'll get on to them this morning . |
| 21 | The dervishes looked on death from the transcendent world , and since to them this world is only a momentary separation from God , they regarded death as the union with God . |
| 22 | But no new names have been signed up to take space in the 165,000 sq ft centre , despite market reports that both Etam and WH Smith were set to confirm lettings to them this week . |
| 23 | To them enlightened rule , in so far as they thought in terms of it at all , meant simply effective solutions to immediate problems . |
| 24 | But she was laying in bed listening to them last night were n't you ? |
| 25 | But Francis told me that had happened to them last year . |
| 26 | Rather spend a short time on several drills and come back to them another day , than a long . |
| 27 | Our friend Pétur Björnsson ( Pétur , son of Björn ) has a lovely blonde daughter Marta , who speaks no English and talked to me all night when we were last there in a glorious mixture of Icelandic and sign language . |
| 28 | Now you 'll get indigestion and then you 'll feel sick and then you 'll be moaning to me all afternoon . |
| 29 | Anyway , he has not spoken to me all day . ’ |
| 30 | You 've not talked to me all day and then it 's that sort of thing . |