Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to [pron] [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 nodded to myself in heartfelt agreement ( in those days children did not comment unless asked , and their presence was usually forgotten ) . |
| 4 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 5 | I love it because it means I get to lots of other countries and see different people and different cultures , and I hate it because it is such a hassle and keeps me away from my family and friends . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 10 | I went to her in 1844 , before ever Mr Browning appeared on the scene . ’ |
| 11 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 14 | I spoke to him in all the languages I knew , but we still could not understand each other . |
| 15 | I spoke to lots of different people , and got plenty of information . |
| 16 | ‘ I spoke to you about that . ’ |
| 17 | I said to her about that phone call did n't I ? |
| 18 | I am hallucinating , I said to myself at first : the strain has affected my mind . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Back home , I wrote to him on 4 July , enclosing a shortish essay which the comparative leisure afforded by leaving Oxford had made possible . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Encourage them to talk to you about any worries or problems they may have . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Never once had she referred to it at all . |
| 26 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ How dare you speak to me like that ! |
| 28 | How dare you speak to me like that in public ! ’ |
| 29 | " How dare you speak to me like that . |
| 30 | 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 |