Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So to meself I sey , where shall I have a ball ?
2 An to meself I sey ‘ De Nazis gone commercial . ’
3 An to meself I sey ‘ Dis should be controversial . ’
4 On September 15th , William Joyce ( Director of Propaganda ) called together the principal Party speakers and delivered to them what amounted to a tirade against Jews and the attitude taken up by the Government on anti-Semitism .
5 the more you tell them , the more they left you know , even when you say to them what did you do at school ? , then what did you do ? , oh nothing much it was
6 And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three .
7 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
8 every time I got to them they had about twenty odd teachers there at the
9 All credit to them they know they have n't got a big guy apart from Ormanroyd as an outlet player so they 're prepared to be patient and build up and pass the ball al pass their way through .
10 Making it clear to them they get they get it 's not
11 " They do the same thing to them they do to Indian women , " Braden said , and after that no one spoke for a minute .
12 Buyers need to tell someone close to them they have made the arrangements , otherwise the policy will be worthless .
13 A few remained among the vines , and to them we continued to take food .
14 They achieved this splendidly in the Scottish Cup semi-final and since Hearts allowed it to happen to them we had a memorably ghastly match .
15 According to them we 've done it alright
16 Erm we do try and be nice to them we do try and give them presents occasionally like little , you may have seen some of them wearing little lions head badges which er are part of the arms of William that we had made .
17 The ways in which events and acts come to have meanings attached to them which serve as the bases for action or inaction by regulatory agencies , and the negotiating tactics employed in securing compliance are central topics dealt with in Part III .
18 And something appeared to them which seemed like tongues of fire .
19 As for the class of goods , where commercial goods are concerned the party acquiring them presumably has some expertise in relation to them which gives him the capability to assess their quality or to understand if he needs to call in an expert assessor , so that less protection should be required in this case .
20 There 's , there 's , there 's one one bloke had a erm speaking , a dog which spoke to them which gave them the
21 WZ966 , WZ967 and WZ968 had had several modifications done to them which included removing the gun turrets from the fuselage and fitting extra aerials .
22 To be effective , though , the rules have a conditional character to them which means , of course , that they generate variation in behaviour in response to variable environments .
23 As he comes up to them he says , ‘ Where 's John ? ’
24 But that night , he summoned the British and American ambassadors and after talking to them he appointed as prime minister his chief of staff , General Gholamreza Azhari , a mild-mannered man who was absolutely opposed to use force .
25 With his back to them he jabbed a finger to the floor .
26 You know to them he said it would n't be matter if there was nothing .
27 Nurses living opposite said Roberts shouted to them he had served 10 months ' jail for a burglary he did not commit .
28 To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years .
29 and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them .
30 To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment .
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