Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to leave , too , because the parents of my good friend Henry Clerval would not let him go to university with me . |
| 2 | Shame I could n't take it to University with me that 'll be interesting ! |
| 3 | He said he heard Stroud say : ‘ This will teach you to shit on me . ’ |
| 4 | Wariness began to snake through her , from her stomach to her solar plexus , somehow interfering with her breathing . |
| 5 | She felt , in her new severity ( for want of a better word ) only half alive , she knew she wanted the old enthusiasms and passions and expectations to course through her and arouse her . |
| 6 | A thought crept unbidden to her mind , causing a rush of liquid heat to course through her . |
| 7 | Perhaps , though , you could get a message to Cabochon for me . ’ |
| 8 | And I can nae , can nae sleep lying down horizontally , I 've got to kind of you know kind of |
| 9 | Scandalise this sheltered creature , and she 'll kick you out , and bolt the gates to paradise behind you . ) |
| 10 | If , however , we do apply anthropological and linguistic perspectives to this recent work on the consequences of literacy , as I claim we must despite its claim to protection from them , then that work in fact turns out to be as biased as that of the earlier phases . |
| 11 | He said , " I 've talked to Mum about it and if you do n't want to get married then no one is going to force you to . |
| 12 | She owed it to the town , and she owed it to the memory of Frank Williams , her father , who 'd had no one to fight for him when he 'd needed it most . |
| 13 | Although Southall likes to wear black — he was head to toe in it on international duty for Wales in Belgium on Wednesday — he has n't lost his colourful sense of humour . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd better , ’ said Joe , who thought it wiser to help her get up and fight her hard luck than to harp on it . |
| 15 | To rail at her meant opening a conversation , and this involved preposterous changes in his day . |
| 16 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 17 | Rory still went occasionally to Mass with her , and sometimes , as a kind of acknowledgement of how different he was from Michael , she would talk to him about the Church , and its importance in their lives . |
| 18 | This will give birth to humility in us , and humility will help us resist the temptation to play God to people . |
| 19 | Recruitment adversiding advertising for example virtually ground to a halt as businesses started to shed er , people , rather than to look for them . |
| 20 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 21 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
| 22 | Ai n't got no one to look at it . |
| 23 | It takes away , no doubt , the right of the solicitor to bring an action directly the work is done , but it does not take away his right to payment for it , which is the cause of action . |
| 24 | . So , you know , to part like him , you 've got ta resent him . |
| 25 | But there may be no one to play on it . |
| 26 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 27 | In seconds , his breath was warm on her cheek , and her eyes flew open as she felt him chest to chest above her . |
| 28 | The boat was blown to glory , nothing was ever found of it except for a few bits of debris , and to all intents and purposes both occupants were blown to glory with it . ’ |
| 29 | As regards ‘ externality ’ , for instance , Pound may be thought to admit the charge , and to glory in it . |
| 30 | Someone forward this to wilko for me … ive solved all our problems ; - ) |