Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from the weather craft are made available for nothing to other governments under international agreements . |
| 2 | But in which other profession are the products of one 's labour given away for nothing to people who then sell them ? |
| 3 | He made a lot of hi-tech guitars and he kept trying to sell me one , but there was something very sterile about them to me ; they had more gadgets than I needed . |
| 4 | I told comic stories about them to Richard 's Oxford friends — my own had drifted away and I did n't mind , seeing them through Richard 's eyes as too solemn , too dull , always discussing the balance of payments — and felt no twinge of guilt . |
| 5 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 6 | Joe was still careful to keep their meetings secret lest some kind friend wrote about them to Terry , but Maureen and Sarah 's father made the meetings easier for them . |
| 7 | Hence the need for general forecasts about them to be included in the marketing process . |
| 8 | I do n't think I ever talked about them to anyone . ’ |
| 9 | information on absentees and what was being done about them to be regularly fed back to appropriate staff |
| 10 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 11 | She always paints well , but her colour is sickly in many instances here , and her choice of subjects not attractive ; to say the least , there was something decidedly unpleasant about them to me , they seemed clinical . |
| 12 | Erm , talked about them to County Council staff only today . |
| 13 | Why would I want to talk about them to anyone else ? ’ |
| 14 | bloke going on about nothing to them , you know they thoroughly enjoyed doing the songs and everything , but when it came to listening |
| 15 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 16 | Incest and necrophilia were as nothing to the amorous Egyptian gods . |
| 17 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 18 | Well now is the time for everyone to be aware of it . |
| 19 | Refusing to condemn the bombing , Mr Adams yesterday said the only way to end the violence was for everyone to be involved in the talks process . |
| 20 | ‘ I regret every incident in this conflict , especially when young children are involved , but the only way to resolve this situation is for everyone to be included , ’ said Mr Adams . |
| 21 | It seemed the IRA had the capacity to bomb more towns , and Mr Mallon called for everyone to be on the alert . |
| 22 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 23 | " What have you been saying about me to David Fairfax ? " |
| 24 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 25 | Both are gigantic construction projects , needing a large number of people to pass through them to be profitable , and with neither of them is the full return projected for a good few years hence . |
| 26 | Increasing pressure on the Poles to Germanise themselves , and the corresponding Polish reaction in both compliance and defiance , were all part of the impact of capitalist industrial organisation as it spread from the first comers of Western Europe , to the second rank of industrialising nations — to Germany , Japan and Italy in particular — and through them to their potential empires and marcher territories . |
| 27 | It was — or was taken to be — a recognition of the important truth that the temporary holder of the office of archbishop stood in the place of , and was answerable to , St Augustine and the other saints of his church , and through them to God . |
| 28 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 29 | It was in this way that ‘ Helmut Wolski ’ found his way to the British , and through them to Britain and , once in London where jobs were scarce , to a job through an army friend at London Zoo , his family , his past , his very name all gone . |
| 30 | DeVore met those eyes and saw through them to the emptiness beyond . |