Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dying on your partner ’ , he said ‘ is much fairer and more financially beneficial to them than divorcing them . ’ |
| 2 | In other words , exploit them , but do not get too close to them or show them any affection . |
| 3 | The corporations are also the development-control authority for the designated area , so they may thus determine planning applications made to them or deem themselves planning permission by resolution . |
| 4 | She thought she would never care enough about anyone to give birth to them or to kill them . |
| 5 | Second , the majority of those suffering from corporate crime remain unaware of their victimization — either not knowing it has happened to them or viewing their ‘ misfortune ’ as an accident and ‘ no one 's fault ’ . |
| 6 | The Japanese did not want to talk about them , see them , hear about them , get married to them or employ them . |
| 7 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 8 | I have to write to them and ask them and about a month later they reply to me and I pass it on to her . |
| 9 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 10 | And the people who run the shop are runners themselves and you can sort of go to them and ask their advice on all sorts of things |
| 11 | ‘ But Shannon , you have it in you to fight the ghosts — to face up to them and banish them forever . |
| 12 | This is all of a piece with the way some men assume they may stare at women , stand close to them and invade their physical space by touching . |
| 13 | He 's sat in there and we all listened to them and insulted them basically ! |
| 14 | GUIL : We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us , with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke , and a presumption that once our eyes watered . |
| 15 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 16 | And then we wrote back to them and said we are very likely getting funding from , in which case can we use your money for other purposes er Well one reason specifically said chairs . |
| 17 | They trusted her for it ; an outlier psion could not go running to Them and reveal who hired her and for what reason . |
| 18 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 19 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 20 | Some parents , in their understandable desire to make their children happy , give in to them and let them have everything they ask for . |
| 21 | We need more space in our branches to improve the comfort and convenience for customers and to talk to them and serve them better . |
| 22 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 23 | He spoke to them and persuaded them with his books and his paintings , through radio and television , by his speeches and his straightforward and trenchant statements to the press about the issues he believed to be so crucial for the welfare of the world . |
| 24 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 25 | We 'll speak to them and tell them that we know what 's happened to you . |
| 26 | You 'd want to go up to them and tell them to do better . " |
| 27 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , why do n't you use the money that Geoffrey and Jean gave you with al buy something and then you can write to them and tell them what you 've cos it 's a fortnight since your birthday , it 's time you 're writing to them they 'll think you 're a most ungrateful child if you do n't write and say thank you . |
| 28 | So when I did n't receive any further communication , I 've gone back to them and asked them whether they would be interested in reducing the price , cos we consider it to be too high for that one acre of land . |
| 29 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 30 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |