Example sentences of "to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ai n't talking to meself , am I ? |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps when I get a minute to meself we can have a picnic of our own , ’ he suggested . |
| 3 | I 've said the same to meself , but the way we are fixed … well , we could n't do much else . ’ |
| 4 | You can chuck me in the river , if you like , for all the good I am to meself . |
| 5 | ‘ I ai n't yer old sweet'eart , ’ said Mrs Beavis , whose naturally sunny beam did not always shine for everyone , ‘ and I 'appen to be keepin' me hands to meself . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I said to meself , Bessie , I said , this young lady ai n't English . |
| 7 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 8 | So to meself I sey , where shall I have a ball ? |
| 9 | An to meself I sey ‘ De Nazis gone commercial . ’ |
| 10 | An to meself I sey ‘ Dis should be controversial . ’ |
| 11 | And that generally comes form the flat owners which I 've talked to meself . |
| 12 | erm I mean my father died eventually , and er the business passed on to meself . |
| 13 | Got these at the baker 's for next to nothin' , by the by . ’ |
| 14 | This point is very important if the manager is left to select a supervisor who will be reporting directly to him/her . |
| 15 | Is his/her misbehaviour reinforced — wittingly or unwittingly — in the way people respond to him/her ? |
| 16 | You could , of course , go to his/her room to tend to him/her . |
| 17 | Someone with early stages of brain failure can be very aware of it , and anxious about what is happening to him/her . |
| 18 | These impressions he/she could perhaps spell out , verbalizing them for the benefit of the student and anyone else who has a legitimate interest in knowing how the student is seen by people close to him/her . |
| 19 | Here , as elsewhere , a translator would be well advised to use those explanations which are compatible with the languages that are of interest to him/her and ignore the rest . |
| 20 | The English text achieves a higher level of informality by appearing to consider various angles of the problem in a relaxed , casual way , as if the writer is simply taking up issues as they occur to him/her . |
| 21 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 22 | The student should not be confused with long lists of new vocabulary to master before the drills can become meaningful to him/her . |
| 23 | a friendly giant who can not speak our language ( but we have to explain to him/her how dangerous s/he is ) |
| 24 | After a time David relaxed and joined in , complimenting Felicity , chaffing her husband and turning often to Julia to remind-her of earlier conversations they had had or to ask her opinion . |
| 25 | As the doctors are still with Tony , I explain the position to the daughters and hand Mum over to them . |
| 26 | They had copied out the names and addresses of everyone who wrote to them and enclosed the list with a message of thanks and good wishes , asking that it be sent on . |
| 27 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 28 | Generally , art criticism connected with mixed and group exhibitions is commentary from outside , so that we shall return to them , with only this brief mention here , in the next chapter . |
| 29 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 30 | The poem and novel I have attributed to them respectively can also , for certain purposes , be attributed to them both . |