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Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time .
2	This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand .
3	A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style .
4	There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping .
5	‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says .
6	He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins .
7	and er the people in the flat above us had to pass our door to get to them in the same way that we had to pass the people , tenants below doors to get to their accommodation .
8	At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former .
9	‘ Would you talk to me for a few minutes ? ’
10	He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler .
11	It could also mean ‘ Will you talk to me for a few minutes , I feel sad . ’
12	‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ?
13	Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks
14	Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’
15	You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer .
16	After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’
17	She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies .
18	‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’
19	Come back to me in a few weeks with another research proposal .
20	I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner .
21	No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week .
22	Losers £100 million fortunes just dribbled away to nothing in no more than a couple of years
23	There was a multitude of small tracks that began promisingly and died to nothing within a few yards , tracks that might be the paths of men or of deer , or wolves , or wild boar .
24	Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’
25	Her instinct is to relate to everyone in the same way .
26	Now these standards need to be visible , common to everyone in the same job , and fixed , er , like a yardstick , by which the employee can measure his activities for himself .
27	to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex .
28	If I could just talk to someone for a few minutes .
29	He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence .
30	I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought .