Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , something happened recently which has prompted me to write to you in this unsolicited way , though God knows we were once . |
| 2 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 3 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 4 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 5 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 6 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 7 | I spoke to him in all the languages I knew , but we still could not understand each other . |
| 8 | ‘ I spoke to you about that . ’ |
| 9 | I said to her about that phone call did n't I ? |
| 10 | Money 's not brilliant but sometimes I see my name on the front page and I feel almost successful for a while , until I come to something like this . ’ |
| 11 | ( 6 ) is very similar : given the opinion that Sir Jee had of himself , he could not understand what could lead someone to speak to him in such a way . |
| 12 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 13 | Encourage them to talk to you about any worries or problems they may have . |
| 14 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 15 | And if somebody came to you with those sorts of things , you 'd think to yourself , it ca n't just go on , and gradually just build up and build up . |
| 16 | It is likely that innocent partners have the implied right to be indemnified by the tortfeasor in respect of any liability which attaches to them under this section , though this would be subject to any express agreement to the contrary . |
| 17 | This attitude was kept alive by the strong sense of the permanence of human arrangements in the matter of property , which seems to us of all things the least permanent : gifts to the Church were made to last till the Day of Judgement , and many of the documents in the Canterbury archives invoked God and all his saints on the Day of Judgement to destroy those who violated their provisions . |
| 18 | The Republican Movement has general orders which apply to everyone within that movement . |
| 19 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 20 | Never once had she referred to it at all . |
| 21 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ How dare you speak to me like that ! |
| 23 | How dare you speak to me like that in public ! ’ |
| 24 | " How dare you speak to me like that . |
| 25 | Well I said what you looking at you skinny thing , and she just , how dare you speak to me like that , and I just who the hell you looking at you ugly thing , I 'm going to Espania tomorrow , cos I 'm going holiday to El Spania , right then |
| 26 | Yeah , and the teacher says tell me A B C and he goes fuck off and he goes and she goes how dare you speak to me like that ! |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't you speak to me in that way , ’ Nora retorted , ‘ or I 'll box your ears , you ungrateful girl ! ’ and they were into yet another quarrel . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you speak to him at all , Delia ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Whenever you speak to me of this Harry of yours , your face and , indeed , your voice reveal that he is of special importance to you . |
| 30 | Christians need to remember the words recorded of Jesus : " Not everyone who says to me on that day , Lord , Lord , shall enter the Kingdom but those who do the will of the Father " ( Matthew 7:21 ) . |