Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they want someone else 's help or whatever else and er I can see that they 're concerned that you know they have a concern or want something from me then and I pass on I some action to take place you know for you know I 've on to somebody or someone said to him , I always give my name . |
| 2 | My knowledge of the fauna is patchy because most of the trapping methods capture only flying insects , and because I have concentrated on groups that I , or someone known to me , can identify . |
| 3 | Their voices can be heard throughout the following pages , where I refer to them consistently by name . |
| 4 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 5 | I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her . |
| 6 | Crawford went to two Christmas parties , where nobody spoke to him and he did n't like the food . |
| 7 | There 's no point in demonstrating if you do n't get any national press , TV or radio … or nobody listens to you or you get beaten up by the Police … ’ |
| 8 | They came to a lurching pontoon , where she clung to him in excitement , her eyes enormous at the sight of four enormous man-sized earwigs calmly waiting for the ferryboat . |
| 9 | Is it switched on or you listening to something ? |
| 10 | You try to be a white person or you go to them and try to be accepted and you go back to blacks and they do n't like it . |
| 11 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 12 | You 're aware that at some stage they 'll need a wash , but you just leave them until they 've calmed down or you talk to them about it . |
| 13 | Neither spoke , nor was there need of words , and afterwards Carrie could not recall whether Seb came to her , or she went to him . |
| 14 | The ‘ Do you remember when ? ’ stories can be so important in getting to know the person who has died , in hearing about how he or she appeared to their surviving family and friends . |
| 15 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 16 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 17 | or owt owing to me , I says , we 'll do it that way and then you come |
| 18 | In being able to discriminate truth — or something approximating to it — from falsehood or nonsense , the student enters a state of intellectual freedom in relation to that portion of the world which is the focus of his or her studies . |
| 19 | The young , untrained dog must have chased them up to the edge of the pit , where they fell to their death . |
| 20 | Very similar to BOGIES used to chastise children , hobyahs kidnapped people and imprisoned them in caves , where they had to mine for fairy gold before they were eaten for their pains . |
| 21 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 22 | Allowing his legs to relax , he worked at unlatching the twin bolts and eased the door open , clambering inside where he dropped to his knees , exhausted , his chest heaving as he sucked in mouthfuls of air . |
| 23 | After considering the nature of the exercise and the people involved , I decided against asking to use a tape-recorder and instead noted the events in longhand as they occurred and , where it seemed to me to be significant , noted what was said , verbatim . |
| 24 | As she returned kiss for kiss , sure of nothing but her need for him , she felt his hand free her hair where it clung to her hot damp skin , then glide lightly down . |
| 25 | The trustee need not comply with any request for information where it appears to him that the request is frivolous or unreasonable or the cost of complying would be excessive or there are not sufficient assets to meet the cost of complying ( r 6.152(2) ) . |
| 26 | It seems or it seemed to us till lately — a natural thing that love ( under certain conditions ) should be regarded as a noble and ennobling passion : it is only if we imagine ourselves trying to explain this doctrine to Aristotle , Virgil , St Paul , or the author of Beomuy , that we become aware how far from natural it is . |
| 27 | Or it appears to us |
| 28 | In many practical cases the program will be deterministic , in that it can not diverge and never has any choice over what to communicate or what to assign to its free variables . |
| 29 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 30 | And one day she had this other map , and I do n't know where she got that either , or what happened to it She only showed it me the once , and after that whenever I mentioned it she did n't know what I was talking about It was made of something absolutely rigid but incredibly thin . |