Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's clear to me and I think it 's clear to the vast majority in Congress that it 's a matter for branches to decide who represents them in the various forums of the union . |
| 2 | I confirm that this price is acceptable to us and we agree to the introduction of the extension to contracted journeys as soon as possible . |
| 3 | This plying of her trade was foreign to her and she felt unsure of her ability to carry it off . |
| 4 | I said yeah we 're try we 're , no I said oh yeah he 's he 's and then she also said slightly different to him and I said well he 's getting there thank you very much , yeah . |
| 5 | Even if it is not their native tongue , Western songs , choruses and hymns are readily accessible to them and they relate fairly easily to the established churches in England . |
| 6 | colour is all-important to her and she uses it to convey feeling and sensation . |
| 7 | He uses many adjectives , to render these images so clearly and precisely in our minds and throughout the novel everything seems so real to us and he makes us visualise what he can actually see . |
| 8 | If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field . |
| 9 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 10 | Eating was natural to me and I want it to be normal and natural again . |
| 11 | If someone was beastly to me and I mentioned it , she thumped them . |
| 12 | and they were very good to me and they kept in touch with me |
| 13 | The teachers are very good to us and we learn a lot from them . |
| 14 | I says I 'm gon na stop with me father and they said well , we 're sorry to lose you but we know this trade 's know good to you and we hope that you 'll stay with your dad and , well I did , I stayed with me dad until , as I say after I come out of the army and they would n't let me increase me coal trade . |
| 15 | Later he said to me that we had been very helpful to him and he said it 's bad enough to be depressed but when you 're depressed and hungry , it 's really bad . |
| 16 | ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 17 | We 're absolutely delighted that you 're here in Portsmouth for your congress and it 's very very important to us and I think perhaps I 'd take a little bit of time to explain why it 's important . |
| 18 | Right , well , well , actually yes , what , what you look at , is , is what 's important to you and you put a cash value on it , and it might be the mortgage , it might be education , it might be giving yourself a couple of years ' salary and paying debts or whatever , er , and the security of knowing that O K , if I die , I 'm not leaving a problem for my family , but at the same time if I 'm in a situation where I get a serious illness and I ca n't bring in an income , I 'm securing my , my , my future in that respect . |
| 19 | But I have to admit I become very attached to them and I know it 's a fault . |
| 20 | You are a natural athlete , the stroke feels right to you and you find you can achieve far greater power this way . |
| 21 | What I mean is , she does n't seem surprised by the way they behave and how they react to things ; it seems normal to her and she accepts it . |
| 22 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 23 | But you get used to it and I think it 's a grand place , it 's done me the world of good anyway , they do n't half help you . |
| 24 | You 'll get used to it and it does n't affect you |
| 25 | Such aggression could be very disturbing to young workers submitting their first paper , although experienced researchers are used to it and it seems to be something which most people are prepared to put up with . |
| 26 | Criticism of the retraining schemes is often that they train people for jobs that are not always available to them and they expect too much mobility from people who have further reasons , in their disability , for being reluctant to move from their familiar surroundings . |
| 27 | ‘ On this last record , and Keith will attest to this , we spent ages recording guitars ; we had every guitar available to us and we went all out . |
| 28 | Every tuft of grass , flower , bird , was precious to her and she wanted to store them in her memory , against the day when they would no longer be hers . |
| 29 | Then we had erm , the other people next door , the woman erm , who was supposed to be a man-eater , we 'd actually looked round her house and it was ident identical to ours and we looked , we looked all the way round her house and like , she said , oh yeah , all the building 's the same but just in reverse and like , we met all the neighbours , plus the woman opposite had n't seen the flat , |
| 30 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |