Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " 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 | ‘ May I speak to you in private ? |
| 3 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 4 | I 've never covered things like comparative questions , when I talk to you about close and , you know basically what I 'm talking to you about |
| 5 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 6 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 7 | I went to her in 1844 , before ever Mr Browning appeared on the scene . ’ |
| 8 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 9 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 10 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 11 | I spoke to him in all the languages I knew , but we still could not understand each other . |
| 12 | ‘ I spoke to you about that . ’ |
| 13 | I said to her about that phone call did n't I ? |
| 14 | If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ? |
| 15 | Back home , I wrote to him on 4 July , enclosing a shortish essay which the comparative leisure afforded by leaving Oxford had made possible . |
| 16 | At the request of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I wrote to you on 25th May concerning the state of the railway embankment on Station Lane Scorton and the mess left around the railway bridge on Gubberford Lane Scorton . |
| 17 | ( 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 . |
| 18 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 19 | Encourage them to talk to you about any worries or problems they may have . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But no one ever mentions two things which seem to me of prime importance in the whole relationship saga . |
| 23 | Nobody talked to her in particular , but she was sitting opposite Miles and , from time to time , a smile flew roughly in her direction , for which she was grateful . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud . … |
| 27 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Never once had she referred to it at all . |
| 30 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |