Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which was in the middle of the road , but I phoned them and to be fair to them they responded very politely , very pleasantly , and dealt with it straight away , so erm |
| 2 | every time I got to them they had about twenty odd teachers there at the |
| 3 | According to them he did not kiss Jacob , but bit him on the neck ! |
| 4 | Cos er , I , I used to say to them I know where they 've eat up or not , I do , and we 've got them . |
| 5 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 6 | So when I parked my car I said to them I forgot how much it was in there , twenty pounds in the hotel as you 're not a guest they give them in reception . |
| 7 | To them it meant primarily the sweeping away of restrictions and prohibitions , on particular forms of trade , on the free choice of a profession or occupation , on the practice of minority forms of religion . |
| 8 | ‘ Joan , when I departed for Ludlow , it was with a heavy heart — for it seemed to me we had only just found each other , ’ Edward told her . |
| 9 | I had long been a believer in voluntary euthanasia , and my mother 's experience strengthened it ; for to me what matters most is not the length of a person 's life but its quality , and that death , when it comes , should have dignity . |
| 10 | If they want to talk to me they come here , ’ says Roger Boyes , executive director of the Leeds Permanent Building Society , delivering a northerner 's ultimate boast . |
| 11 | And the very player that I was talking about then , turns up now down the left hand side , he holds on so well , the cross again , and er again almost gets the cross in and our er colleague from the Italian service is er getting very excited a just away to my left , but er the header is wide , he can calm down a little , have an aspirin , and it 's still two one for Notts , but er Pisa they 're a danger , and to me they look far more dangerous than the Italian opponents in the last game here at Lane in this same competition . |
| 12 | Alright to me they do n't look harsh . |
| 13 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
| 14 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 15 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 16 | Er well not to me she did n't . |
| 17 | To me she looks very thin even though what we 're feeding her . |
| 18 | Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari . |
| 19 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 20 | ‘ But despite all the mishaps that have happened to me I 've never lost faith in the inner man and that 's why I 'm still where I am . |
| 21 | Well do n't to me I 've only just you |
| 22 | Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy . |
| 23 | And he turned to me I said not likely ! |
| 24 | And er , when I went to me I found out it in the post It was in the post , that I was picked . |
| 25 | And he came once to me on the district to me I do n't know he went to others . |
| 26 | You see I put me poster up in the window and then me flipping dad said to me I do n't know whether you should have that poster up , what if Miss is around , Conservative , so I bloody took it down and put it in a magazine , I thought when we 've got |
| 27 | speak to , just speak to me I do n't wan na be . |
| 28 | Well he says , said to me I do n't know why you 're going to keep , er th to slimming thing cos you , because I ca n't tell no difference with you . |
| 29 | oh aye I wear my padded jacket to me I do n't care |
| 30 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |