Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] who [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them . |
| 2 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 3 | Mark Wright , restored to the captaincy , squared up to anyone who would listen but the Spartak player was booked , as was Burrows as the melee died . |
| 4 | It 's not always easy for you to talk your problems through , but if there 's something bothering you , it might be a good idea to open up to someone who can help . |
| 5 | Mr Rampton asked : ‘ Suppose you had somebody in your hands who had behaved badly … is it in those circumstances right to hand him back to somebody who would treat him with equal brutality ? ’ |
| 6 | Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father . |
| 7 | The point is , that whether it 's addressed personally , or all round to anyone who might be watching , whether it 's verbal or mimetic , the function of an account is to correct a potentially unfavourable impression of oneself which an infraction of the unwritten rules might produce . |
| 8 | ‘ The change does me good , dear , ’ she would explain gently but firmly to anyone who would listen . |