Example sentences of "to [pron] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 2 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 3 | They 'll explain it to anyone , anytime , but somehow it turns out that the other employees must go to them if they want anything . |
| 4 | It could n't have made any difference to them if we knew what was happening . |
| 5 | ‘ We turn to them if we need them . |
| 6 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 7 | ‘ We basically say to them if you put your trust in us we will not fail you — and that has been the case . |
| 8 | It may seem repetitious to you , but not to them if you do it once to each person . |
| 9 | Whether they are aboard here or on Santorini it will be all one to them when they join us in what Lieutenant Denholm is pleased to call vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 10 | One of the main elements which matters to customers is that stock should be available to them when they order it , that it should be delivered at the time they request it and that it should be assembled correctly . |
| 11 | More advanced instruction can be offered on this basis , and they know that it will be ( or should be ) available to them when they need it . |
| 12 | of those people — 361,000 — have their forms returned to them because they filled them in incorrectly . |
| 13 | Some doctors have also been known to recommend Yoga to patients coming to them because they feel they ‘ just ca n't cope ’ or ‘ just ca n't go on ’ . |
| 14 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 15 | For the O level people and those who just wanted to work , mucking around was seen to be unfair both to them because it held them back and to the teachers : here they interpret ‘ mucking about ’ wholly within the official theory of schooling . |
| 16 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 17 | Come and describe Maggie to me while I get her a drink . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Wilhelm wo n't speak to me since I chucked his Filofax in the jacuzzi . |
| 19 | People would n't be so nice to me if they thought I was so lucky , but it 's fun to see their faces when I bring certain special ones back now and then . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It would matter to me if anyone suspected me of taking drugs — not just you . ’ |
| 21 | She sometimes signed it over to me if she needed it urgently and had n't time to queue at the post office . |
| 22 | ‘ To tell you the truth , it 'd be a relief to me if she did something adult . |
| 23 | For the fates as surely directed you to me as they directed my feet this morning to a path I never took before . |
| 24 | ‘ Just talk to me as you do it . ’ |
| 25 | Would you had brought Undry to me as I asked you ! |
| 26 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 27 | Her words came back to me as I pictured her sitting by the fire in her tiny croft . |
| 28 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |
| 29 | Similarly a doctor said : ‘ Very many people have told me they can talk to me because I know what it feels like to have an illness . |
| 30 | She had a daughter , Rosemary Worty , who looked up to me because I locked her up one night . |