Example sentences of "to [pron] he [verb] it " in BNC.
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1 | You know to them he said it would n't be matter if there was nothing . |
2 | Secondly , though the net price obtained by the owner of land should have been the same irrespective of whether the body to whom he sold it was private or public , some owners might have been unwilling to sell to the commission . |
3 | Of climbing Ratagan ( which they spelt in different ways : Boswell , ‘ Ratakin' : Johnson , ‘ Ratiken ’ ) in the early afternoon , Johnson confided in Mrs Thrale ( to whom he spells it ‘ Rattiken ’ ) ‘ more difficulty than we had yet experienced ’ , a formidable demur , given the harshness of the ride out from Fort Augustus to Anoch . |
4 | And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter . |
5 | His order has been obeyed if the person to whom he gave it did something correctly described by the words of the order . |
6 | It was the attempt to restore the appearance of Gaitskellite centrality that produced Mr Kinnock 's revolution and the packaging operation to which he allowed it to be subjected , and his failure , even so , to conceal the Labour Party 's true character which produced disaster last Thursday . |
7 | So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on |
8 | So you 're sitting in your office and some , you know your , your boss comes in and says hey the president says so and so , but the president does n't usually say it to you he says it to somebody else so there 's always , there 's always a possibility of ambiguity , somebody else has interpreted the president 's message in a particular way . |
9 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
10 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
11 | When she read it out to him he tapped it in for her . |
12 | Dr Burstead — when I gave it to him he put it in his mouth and bit it to see that it was a good 'un . |
13 | That was that really … open flood gates … goal 2 … ball over the top for Wallace who went from 25 yds into the right of te area and finished absolutely brilliantly … goal 3 corner from right Strachan talking to the kop asking where to place it … hits it long … comes back to him he hits it it bobbles out to the left edge of the area where Speed hits it along the ground . |
14 | When he wrote verses directly to her he proved it . ’ |