Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [pron] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As the boat you were using for your ridiculous smuggling attempt belongs to me I should have thought it was obvious . ’ |
| 2 | We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see . |
| 3 | In order to cope with the workload allocated to me I have the help of two Assistant Solicitors . |
| 4 | In her heart she thought : Kind as she has been to me , and much as I respect her , your wife , my lord , is the last lady living to whom I am likely to apply . |
| 5 | This argument appealed to what I called the ideal of protected expectation , that collective force should be used only in accordance with standards chosen and read through procedures the community as a whole knows will be used for that purpose , procedures so widely acknowledged that they are matters of general social or professional convention . |
| 6 | Mind you , if erm someone erm thought of erm if you 're on your own and a man says to you I 'm married but I do n't like it can I come and live with you ? |
| 7 | If John 's moral life came to me I would say : |
| 8 | I have more than enough , my old love saw to it I was comfortable . |
| 9 | myself , I think that if any thing happens to Keith which is obviously he 's not gon na live a long life if any thing happens to him I , I myself I reckon she 'll go back to London , because she 's got absolutely nothing here she 's got a cousin although , I do n't think she 'd move in , in with her cousin |
| 10 | The railway started to what I could only term , improve . |
| 11 | You see I put me poster up in the window and then me flipping dad said to me I do n't know whether you should have that poster up , what if Miss is around , Conservative , so I bloody took it down and put it in a magazine , I thought when we 've got |
| 12 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |