Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very well , convey my congratulations to General Froebe — I 'm sure he 'll be anxious to convey his to me for the sake of protocol . ’ |
| 2 | The great novelist , here writing as a criminologist , was evidently seeking to describe a social accompaniment of the transition to a capitalist mode of production , which to him as a magistrate was most evident as a problem of order . |
| 3 | It was no fun loving a person like Memet , especially when he would n't commit himself to her in a civilized and law-abiding manner . |
| 4 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 5 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 6 | He kept himself to himself as a rule , except for meals : attended what lectures he chose , and cut the rest . |
| 7 | ‘ She … can draw you to her with a single hair ’ , ’ he murmured . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ Tell your sister she must send you to me with a message , and I 'll be there . ’ |
| 9 | such as this year 's figures you know they 're not paying you to somebody over the phone and expect to remember of course they ca n't so I 've got the detail that I need to keep looking at , and there about that 's about it . |
| 10 | Erm if anybody is actually interested in could I actually refer you to somebody in the personnel group erm Lynne . |
| 11 | My daughters have taken you to themselves as a sister ; João I know has shown you every courtesy and kindness — and I myself give up valuable time each day to speak to you . |
| 12 | Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ? |
| 13 | There is also , in the fabric of the study method , the personal communication from you to yourself in the form of notes . |
| 14 | they wo n't send you to anything like The Sun or the Daily Mirror I do n't think |
| 15 | 7.4 Whenever any sum of money is recoverable from or payable by you to us as a result of the operation of any of these conditions or any breach by you of the same , such sum may be deducted by us from any sum then due or which at any time thereafter may become due to you under any other order or transaction placed or entered into by us with you . |
| 16 | You go into the bedroom , checking the position of the mirrors ; none of them ought to show you to anybody in the bathroom . |
| 17 | A predator may have scented what you see and beaten you to it by a matter of an hour or so . |
| 18 | She had longed to be invited to a party , a longing which presented itself to her as a weakness and a wickedness , as well as an impossibility . |
| 19 | The upshot of this little matter was to leave me labelled as ‘ Mr X ’ — a pseudonym invented by Harold Wilson and which has attached itself to me throughout the years , but never offensively . |
| 20 | They were ordinary chaps who deliberately sold themselves short right down to their weedy name , an idea that still attaches itself to anything on the label . |
| 21 | Against the egotism of the preoccupation of being with itself , he posits a relation of sociality , whereby the self instead of assimilating the other opens itself to it through a relation with it . |
| 22 | I 'm not saying it 's hard work , like working on a farm , but they certainly do n't give everything to you on a silver platter , ’ she added as her name was called for yet another fitting . |
| 23 | And I had a couple of months making it and god , it was such a wonderful time I had and writing the lyrics and saying things about love and feelings that have meant something to me over the years . |
| 24 | Those years apart did something to us as a family — it was hard to adjust to one another again after so long apart . |
| 25 | ‘ Look here , Miss O'Brien , if you 're really serious , why do n't you write a few handbills , saying what ’ Factota Limited' is and explaining its aims , and send one to everyone in the village ? |
| 26 | The chain can be described adequately by specifying the first rectangle and then relating the next one to it by the four statements in Table 11.1 . |
| 27 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 28 | She was offering herself to him on a silver platter , no strings attached , and she would simply cope with the agony of their parting when the time came . |
| 29 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 30 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |