Example sentences of "to [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 2 | GUIL : We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us , with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke , and a presumption that once our eyes watered . |
| 3 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 4 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 5 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 6 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 7 | He spoke to them and persuaded them with his books and his paintings , through radio and television , by his speeches and his straightforward and trenchant statements to the press about the issues he believed to be so crucial for the welfare of the world . |
| 8 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 9 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 10 | ( v ) Fix the cells by pipetting 70% alcohol on to them and allow them to air dry . |
| 11 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |
| 12 | Oh you 'll dro If you write to i If you write to them and drop it in that 's fine then . |
| 13 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 14 | But he gave much of his time to them and showered them with expensive gifts . |
| 15 | To me that puts us in a difficult position when trying Germans , whose crime was obeying their superiors ’ orders , whatever our horror at what those orders led to . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes the English Catholics write to me and ask me for help , and sometimes I write to them . |
| 17 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 19 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 20 | I think it 's the way he looks , like , if you know what I mean , you know like pull his face and like , look over glasses , I mean , he did it to me when did it to Johnny . |
| 21 | In general meetings the Director attracted all problems to himself and found himself in difficulties . |
| 22 | Tom mumbled something to himself and handed it to him . |
| 23 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
| 24 | The flagship of the British labour movement , nothing less , that 's the vision , that 's what we want to try and create and that 's what we want to come back to you and tell you about the prospects next year . |
| 25 | Now , you 'll recall that last week I was talking about Darwin 's basic concept and I tried to explain it to you and to illustrate it to you . |
| 26 | We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday . |
| 27 | Pull out the magazine schemes that appeal most to you and stick them in a file ; mark the pages you like in books . |
| 28 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |
| 30 | You can get it by post at three pounds fifty by post , send a cheque or postal order made payable to the B B C for three pounds fifty , we 'll sent it b , I 'll send it by post to you and send it to Afternoon Special , , Derby , Leicester , Lincoln or Nottingham if you want the Good Old Days Quiz Book by post . |