Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this poem we see their shared Jewishness , and the ‘ irreverence ’ ( as some would see it ) they each had for the Tradition — at least for that view of it which some espoused ; we also see a shared disdain for rabbinic ( and priestly ) logic , to them both a form of mental death . |
| 2 | But most of us experience periods of low self-esteem at different times and some — particularly If they have been unhappy in their early life — seem to be permanently stuck with such a poor impression of themselves and their own worth that ‘ self-esteem ’ is to them just a word which applies to other people more fortunate than themselves . |
| 3 | I talk to them once a month normally , but more frequently since the war began . |
| 4 | It suggests to me either an act of personal revenge or , alternatively , a demonstration to encourage the others , as the French say . ’ |
| 5 | I understand that you will be faxing to me today a request for banker 's details and credit references . |
| 6 | Perkin 's absence was to me almost a shock , so accustomed had I become to his being there . |
| 7 | Similarly , Benjamin 's description of cinematic form provokes immediate comparisons with the potential of recording and mixing techniques ( mike-positioning , rebalancing , dubbing , and so on ) for musical ‘ montage ’ and an ‘ analytical ’ revelation of new sound details and relationships ( for instance , Elvis Presley 's ‘ voice ’ — that is , the vocal ‘ image ’ we hear on his records — seems to me precisely a product of this kind of process ) . |
| 8 | Or is I come to you just a projection from the voice of the Enemy , saying to Frodo what he wants to hear , putting words in the mouth but not in the heart , creating ugly fictions as he does later with the phantasmal corpses of the Dead Marshes ? |
| 9 | Had he imagined it , or had Chung Hu-yan come to him only an hour back with news of another attack ? |
| 10 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 11 | I spoke to him quite a bit you know . |
| 12 | ‘ Annie 's been chatting to him quite a lot , lately . |
| 13 | She crouched down behind a row of freight cars and took in her surroundings : to her right a goods shed , to her left two sets of parallel track and a rusted freight car , its wheels barely visible through the tangled mass of overgrown weeds . |
| 14 | She was trapped in the middle lane , there was a solid wall of lorries to her left , and to her right a blur of fast cars . |
| 15 | Lady Selvedge was a tall , pale-faced woman , with a camel-like caste to her features-perhaps a Hapsburg lip if one took a more kindly view . |
| 16 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |
| 17 | The directorship , for which he had struggled for years , represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights . |
| 18 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 19 | Will you fly to us tomorrow a representative who can lay down principles and answer specific questions . |
| 20 | So it actually comes to us quite a bit smaller than when it 's filled in by them . |