Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] to [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say nothing to him about this . |
| 2 | Her father was explaining something to her in that overloud , careful voice which he used to her mother , the voice which said : ‘ I know you are too stupid to understand this but I will talk slowly and loudly and hope that you wo n't try my patience too far . ’ |
| 3 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , they can just think again , ’ replied Rachel hotly , ‘ and if anyone says anything to you on those lines I would be obliged if you would put them straight . ’ |
| 5 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 6 | His hold on her arm seemed to be doing nothing to him at all . |
| 7 | I 've killed a man , he thought , but the realisation meant nothing to him in that mad moment . |
| 8 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 9 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 10 | film a , the language meant nothing to me at all ! |
| 11 | It was a heavy leather-bound copy of Don Quixote , dramatically illustrated by a man whose name meant nothing to me at that time , Gustave Doré . |
| 12 | Eileen was dead and it meant nothing to them at all . |
| 13 | It does n't mean anything to me at all . ’ |
| 14 | She should n't mean anything to you at all . ’ |
| 15 | How last year the crop had meant nothing to him at all ; how , without understanding , he had walked about the harbour and warehouses of Episkopi , and the misuse of the Order 's cargo of sugar had been simply a matter noted and used as a playing-counter . |
| 16 | On some days Marcus said nothing to him at all , while at the same time making it , without word or gesture , clear that his presence was helpful . |
| 17 | ‘ But Mack said nothing to me about this , ’ the coroner said angrily . |
| 18 | ‘ For the present , I must ask you to say nothing to anybody about this aspect of the case . ’ |
| 19 | But nobody said anything to me about that , nor about where Mr Marr 's body had gone after Pikey ran into him with Lethal Weapon II . |
| 20 | I I do n't think , we had a matron who was extremely strict and I do n't think we would 've dared to say anything to her at all . |
| 21 | Who dare offer anything to her in such an orderly and wellgoverned house as yours , and under a master of so good a character for virtue and honour ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Well can I say something to you in that case then ? |
| 24 | She used to sit behind her desk looking very prim and proper , and er I do n't , I do n't quite honestly think we would 've dared say anything to her at all . |