Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to them that he said anything that came into his head . |
| 2 | It could n't have made any difference to them if we knew what was happening . |
| 3 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 4 | of those people — 361,000 — have their forms returned to them because they filled them in incorrectly . |
| 5 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 6 | For the O level people and those who just wanted to work , mucking around was seen to be unfair both to them because it held them back and to the teachers : here they interpret ‘ mucking about ’ wholly within the official theory of schooling . |
| 7 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 8 | But the squares I was n't sure what happens to them and I confused him by asking him . |
| 9 | And he said , you know he talked to them and he said you can do whatever you like because Mary-Ann and Mitch were superior people . |
| 10 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 11 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 12 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 13 | but it was told to me that he dreamt it |
| 14 | I prayed that she would intercede for us , and show us her grace , and it came to me that she heard me , and that she willed to do us good . |
| 15 | It occurred to me that she knew you were a Gemini , and she was clearly thrilled about us getting together . ’ |
| 16 | Deborah is confident and outspoken and had mentioned to me that she felt her sense of herself as ‘ not bad-looking ’ , and her lack of any real anxieties about her weight or body was largely due to her mother . |
| 17 | ‘ Wilhelm wo n't speak to me since I chucked his Filofax in the jacuzzi . |
| 18 | He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that . |
| 19 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 20 | And she took to me and she took me to Liverpool and they were very good to me . |
| 21 | and I was upset so I went to my doctor who 's a lady doctor and she 's young , she explained things to me and she put me on H R T and it changed my life completely ! |
| 22 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 23 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
| 24 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 25 | He sat next to me and I wrinkled my nose at the sweaty odour emanating from the long , black , food-stained gown he wore . |
| 26 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 27 | It just came to me and I knew it must be for one of you . ’ |
| 28 | I was very happy there , not just because I 'd won but also because the crown was very nice to me and I saw lots of Portuguese people . |
| 29 | The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting . |
| 30 | Nat turned and shouted this garbled message to me and I hooked my dogs to a tree and went forward to talk to him . |