Example sentences of "to [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 2 | they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves . |
| 3 | I usually read to them a bit , but there 's no need for you to . |
| 4 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 5 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |
| 6 | Their twenty seven year old son had returned home around eleven thirty last night and found his parents dead … next to them a shotgun . |
| 7 | It is well known that speakers of French have open to them a number of different ways of forming interrogatives ; for example , Coveney ( 1986 ) has distinguished five different variants of the wh interrogative , two of which are [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] . |
| 8 | The National Council of the League passed a resolution in March 1933 urging the Labour party and TUC to arrange " a meeting with the representatives of the Co-op movement , the ILP and the CP for the purpose of proposing to them a basis for United Action " . |
| 9 | I write to them a lot . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
| 11 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 12 | Next to them a baby shrieks in its mother 's arms . |
| 13 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 14 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 15 | He described to me a life of violence and hatred in which he lost no opportunity to vent his anger upon those around him — and , what is more , he actually enjoyed doing so . |
| 16 | It has always seemed to me a pity that Evelyn Waugh , the one person present with a gift for writing , was blind to the historical significance of the occasion , impercipient of this last manifestation of Abyssinia 's traditional pageantry . |
| 17 | It 's does smack to me a bit of in-filling and er , Northbrooks is quite a dense area already , a ve , a very dense area erm , and erm I 'm I 'm , you know , I 'd like to see any detailed plans on that before we even look at one in principle . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know about reincarnation , ’ said Lydia , ‘ except it sounds to me a bit of a dirty trick . |
| 19 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 20 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 21 | That there should be a chance for at least some children to learn Latin , not as a part of ‘ classical studies ’ , but essentially as a branch of linguistic studies , seems to me a benefit that schools should strive to preserve . |
| 22 | well I have n't discussed this with my learned friend , but it seems to me a date sometime next term would be appropriate , er which would give another term , or so for the plaintiff side to investigate these matters |
| 23 | Unknown to me a honeybee had made a hive in this part of the wall and not long afterwards I became aware of an angry bee searching frantically for the entrance to its hive . |
| 24 | She has written to me a couple of times and seems to have managed to keep everyone busy in my absence . |
| 25 | Next to me a girl eating a box of liquorice torpedoes . |
| 26 | One person said to me a year or two ago : ‘ I 'm scared of dying . |
| 27 | This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat . |
| 28 | Neumann , conveniently , attributes to me a generalization I did not make then proceeds to refute it . |
| 29 | In his book , Pot Pourri from the Thirties , Lord Moyne writes , ‘ To me a home in the country was a gateway to happiness … |
| 30 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |