Example sentences of "to [pers pn] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is in your reaction to them that misfortune lies . |
| 7 | ‘ I will never stand in your way ! ’ she cried to them that evening in the bedroom . |
| 8 | Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible . |
| 9 | It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment . |
| 10 | It did n't occur to me that criticism coming from an American of American business might be acceptable , but from someone like me , was much much harder to take . |
| 11 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 12 | Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way . |
| 13 | ‘ There is one I 'd strongly tip for the future who came to me that way , though . |
| 14 | Not when you speak to me that way . ’ |
| 15 | To me that crack signifies not reassurance but youth and hopelessness . |
| 16 | Miss O'Keeffe 's work suggests to me that kind of passionate mysticism that clouds the seeing eye with visions false to it , like some sweet drug . |
| 17 | It seems to me that anorexia nervosa acts as a metaphor for all the problems of adolescence . |
| 18 | And here it seems to me that music education is one of the most neglected things in our culture today . |
| 19 | It seems to me that music television , like sports programming , mainly assumes that its audiences live in the same world and share the same expertise . |
| 20 | It seems to me that art of all kinds emerges out of deep human needs , needs that can not be met anywhere else . |
| 21 | It appears to me that default in the sense of breach of duty must persist after the act or neglect until the damage is suffered . |
| 22 | Only if it had been clearly demonstrated to me that trust status would involve a positive move in that direction would I allow such status to be assumed . |
| 23 | It seems to me that part of the problem of players complaining about the pressure of the modern game is that they have not attuned themselves properly to what is required . |
| 24 | That you did not mean what you said to me that day . ’ |
| 25 | Oh it 's no good to me that size . |
| 26 | It does seem to me that philosophy is much more effective when combined with some ‘ first order ’ discipline , than when taught in isolation . |
| 27 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 28 | And they 'll quote to me that inflation 's at two percent . |
| 29 | It was becoming clear to me that agriculture and its problems were a key factor in demographic changes all over Peru . |
| 30 | Speaking through an interpreter , Mr Usta said : ‘ As far as I can figure it out , one day before the operation the cheque was given by Dr Crockett , it was changed and the money given to me that night . ’ |