Example sentences of "to [pron] he [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He says to me he says to me he 's , I 've been two or three time while he been int garden he says every time you come in here you lock your car , he says why you 're only int garden , I says well I 've lived round here for a lot of years , ha , I says and when you 've lived here long enough I says you 'll be locking your car every time you get it out .
2 In the great roles — his Tristan , his Otello — it seems to me he brings to the part a unique sense of musical phrasing .
3 That represents sixty percent of secondary schools and seventeen percent of primary schools and despite the er endeavour to which he refers of Essex county council , I can tell him that the latest school to decide to hold a ballot on such status is Notley High School , Braintree .
4 In making manifest to a waiting public the final accomplishment of that ambitious design , Sheriff Irvine Smith has had to contend with vicissitudes of health to which he refers in his Introduction and from which all his many friends are rejoiced to see him recovered .
5 However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser !
6 ‘ It 's right to hand him back to the government of the country to which he belongs in the expectation that he will be properly treated and if he has committed a war crime he would be tried accordingly , ’ Lord Aldington replied .
7 Graeme is chaplain at Strathalmond School in Perthshire , and he has a house on North Uist to which he escapes at every available opportunity .
8 I also want to establish the degree to which he wants to be true to the facts , such as they are .
9 Nevertheless , assuming that all users are eventually registered , the data subject should be able to feel that he knows or can find out more than he knew hitherto about the extent to which he figures in the data banks .
10 ‘ We 're still left with a list of uncertainties , from the exact scope of his fiscal plans , to who he appoints to key positions and how protectionist he will be , ’ he said .
11 And it 's an example of the commitment which the man himself brings to everything he does in both professional and private life .
12 In The Hidden Files , his fascinating contemplation of his life and his work , he confesses that writing Suarez almost cost him his sanity , and in trying to analyse what the black novel means to him he returns to it again and again , like a child rubbing a particularly vicious boil .
13 So I 'm not looking for a response to what he says at this stage .
14 But listen to what he says about them : ‘ These monsters explain history for me . ’
15 But at some point it switches to what he thinks about them .
16 As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) .
17 The hon. Gentleman referred in his question , and in a conversation on radio during the weekend , to what he describes as ’ an increasing number ’ of passenger train collisions .
18 I think you ‘ ll agree that his right as to what he does with that money supersedes any thoughts I may have , in the final analysis .
19 He 's set up a meeting for tomorrow with his financial boys , and I get the impression he 's very keen , but it 's all down to what he wants for the equity investment and how much I 'm prepared to give him . ’
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