Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I skirted the dike district too — or at any rate two big chicks denied me entry to their purple sanctum . |
| 2 | Are n't I kind to you ? |
| 3 | I opened my heart to him , and he gave me his blessing . ’ |
| 4 | A letter to Rohde contains , half-way through , the sign " N.B. " and , at the end , the following : " At the point marked N.B. , a message came calling me into town as soon as I reached the foot of the page ; now returned , I am trembling all over and can not free myself of it even by pouring out my heart to you . |
| 5 | ‘ I poured out my heart to you , Laura , telling you how much I loved you , and that , despite our difficulties , I was certain we could find a way to solve them . |
| 6 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |
| 7 | The rain beat against my face , pasted my hair to my scalp , ran down my neck . |
| 8 | ‘ Take a turn with me , Doctor , and I 'll lay my faith to your scepticism that I make the weir and back before you . ’ |
| 9 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 10 | The letter , addressing me chummily as Nigella , exhorted me to rescue men from the cruel tyranny of women , or at least to lend my support to their cause of ‘ Fighting Back For Fellas ’ Per-lease ! ’ |
| 11 | I am honoured and delighted to offer my support to their cause but also my help to raise public awareness about the importance of their needs . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I know but I feel it is becoming more and more appropriate to my response to everything and that it must come soon . ’ |
| 13 | My response to him simply proved that . ’ |
| 14 | He had read the article in The Independent and my response to it . |
| 15 | I I I mean I do n't think you need to do that but er that 's my response to your question . |
| 16 | You also write out of the realisation that the world you know is going to end and this sense relates directly to my response to my mother 's death . |
| 17 | ‘ Believe it or not , my responsibility to my daughter rated higher in my mind than going to seek you out at the hotel . ’ |
| 18 | Or , rather , that was my excuse to myself when the letter first arrived and sent me sailing up on to Cloud Nine . |
| 19 | That was my excuse to myself , although I knew it was wrong of me to leave only two unwounded men to guard the stockade . |
| 20 | I DECIDED to hand over a half share in my bungalow to my daughter now , and leave the other half share in my will to my grandchildren . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you hear that ? ’ whispered my sister to me . |
| 22 | ‘ You listen to this , ’ said my sister to me crossly . |
| 23 | He made it clear he could never acknowledge my existence to his family and I did n't expect him to . |
| 24 | My action recalled my presence to him . |
| 25 | I sat up , huddling my blanket to my chest . |
| 26 | In fact , I think I owe my vocation to him . ’ |
| 27 | I , too , express my sympathy to his family and to his fiance e and her family . |
| 28 | I gave my cheque to her personally . |
| 29 | But the , the fact is , that what I , my plea to you today , and and my plea to the committee yesterday is , that I do n't want this to be in the political arena , it is in the political arena , but I think we do need to er er er take it out of the political arena , for the benefit of of all the people that that put us here . |
| 30 | Featured previously in these columns I make no apology for repeating my plea to anyone who has copies of this publication to look after them , because good examples are none too common these days . |