Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they come to us the packaging has disappeared and so we ca n't sell it . |
| 2 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 3 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |
| 4 | If I said to you the communication right these are the methods that this is what actually communication is . |
| 5 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 6 | If you listen to what the Tories are actually saying , it 's the same old I 'm alright Jack mentality . |
| 7 | Anna 's answer was , If you go to him the instant you are free , what will the world say ? |
| 8 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |
| 9 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |
| 10 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 11 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 12 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 13 | One comes from perhaps the pharmaceutical and the medical profession side , and it seems to me the other side is really the public side . |
| 14 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 15 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 16 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 17 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 18 | When you talk to me the way you do ? |
| 19 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
| 20 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |
| 21 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
| 22 | When a mother 's face does not reflect a meaningful world of which the baby is a part — as it seems to me the face of a woman in pain can not — then what results is ‘ a threat of chaos and the baby will organise withdrawal , or will not look except to perceive as a defence . |
| 23 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |