Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking to them one often finds that their main priority is the adults in their lives . |
| 2 | They do , they think people did it to me so I 'm gon na do it to them they just do it as a way of getting back , it 's not is this what people do , they know it 's not right they just do it because they think well we had to sit there for hours on look out so they can too . |
| 3 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 4 | Well I do n't think we owe it to them we just delivered them a nice big salary and they 've got more than enough work to do . |
| 5 | To them we now turn . |
| 6 | To them it still had meaning . |
| 7 | However I would like to commen comment in my name in terms of my amendment on page sixty five of the blue paper to deliverance four on what seems to me their very seriously limited expression of the work of the holy spirit as guiding us only in our understanding of the bible . |
| 8 | whether this stuff is available on retrieval because it seems to me what really matters are the trends . |
| 9 | It seems to me what actually happens if you think about it is that , is that technology and culture builds on trends that already have a natural foundation . |
| 10 | I can see how those faded images might suggest sultry nights of Mediterranean passion even if to me they now evoke only memories of sunburn and Retsina hangovers . |
| 11 | But when she came to me she just said : ‘ How are things going with your single — what 's involved ? ’ |
| 12 | When it happened to me I just could not believe it . |
| 13 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 14 | I think it right to bear in mind the evidence of Mr a solicitor now specializing in re-habilitation work who is himself alas wheelchair bound , erm , he has directly relevant experience and he expressed the view that er two ramps leading up to the vehicle from the rear could be unsafe and were in his view generally less satisfactory than the platform with which the conversion equips the Nissan Serena , in those circumstances it seems to me I really have no choice but to er adopt the alternative of the conversion and er there is an agreed figure of thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds in relation to that . |
| 15 | When Gyggle first explained this experiment to me I almost laughed at how facile it was . |
| 16 | That you did not write letters to me I sometimes attributed to the fact that you must indeed be a secret agent , unwilling to commit himself in writing . |
| 17 | When he came over to me I fully expected a slap on my kisser , I being the known ring-leader . |
| 18 | To me it just sounds horrible or like there 's something wrong with your tape . |
| 19 | But to me it just seems wrong to have the government involved in any kind of censorship or questions of taste . |
| 20 | Some runners talk in mystical terms of a ‘ high ’ , but to me it simply resembles a perfect golf swing or tennis shot when you hit straight through the ball without any thought or any inhibition , and the result is invariably perfect . |
| 21 | It is of type F5 , and theoretically should be yellowish , but to me it always looks pure white . |
| 22 | This call has been said to sound like " go back , go back " , but to me it always sounds like a duck laughing ( to be honest I 've never heard a duck laughing , so I 'm probably totally wrong ) . |
| 23 | thing , but to me it always looked like a barracks |
| 24 | And he said to me you better ring for the fire engine cos it 's . |
| 25 | As we enter the darkened cinema it is around 11.30 p.m. and the seats are quickly filling with various rowdies , late-night drinkers and revellers to whom we eagerly add ourselves . |
| 26 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 27 | Economic considerations are mediated through the minds of human beings who live in a social world , which means that the impact of economics is crucially conditioned by ideology — a notion which has been explored and expanded by the Marxist theorists to whom we now turn . |
| 28 | The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts , themselves ensembles which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong . |
| 29 | By this good turn the bishop won the hearts of all , and the people began to listen more readily to his teaching , hoping to obtain heavenly blessings through the ministry of one to whom they already owed these material benefits ; Eddius Stephanus then pointed out that those ungrateful enough not to convert willingly did so at the king 's command . |
| 30 | He 's a servant and servants can hire themselves to whom they please . |