Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] in [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 | ‘ What matters to me in this cooperative , ’ he wrote to his wife from Helsinki , ‘ is that they are all well-established people , with left-wing sympathies . |
| 3 | Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand . |
| 4 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 5 | Send to me in any event . |
| 6 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 7 | The footpath passes ( on the right ) the Beroldingen castle which probably occupies the site of the earlier castle of 1530 ; attached is a chapel added to it in 1546 by Josua von Beroldingen when he was accepted into the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem . |
| 8 | But I watched , out of a sense of duty admittedly , most of the election news programmes , feeling all the time , these are not relating to me in any way . |
| 9 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
| 10 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 11 | But Christopher Taylor will happily chat to you in any one of 18 languages . |
| 12 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 13 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 14 | We had never met her before she came , yet she immediately called us Mummy and Daddy , and still writes to us in this way from Nigeria . |
| 15 | The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward … |
| 16 | In a letter addressed to him in 476 or 477 , Sidonius talks of Euric restraining weapons with laws . |
| 17 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 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 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 20 | The acceptance of such reasoning required Lord Hailsham to address anew the question of the mental element required for lack of consent in rape , since the nineteenth century judges upon whom he relied had never had the matter presented to them in these terms . |
| 21 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 22 | Your chance to make up your own mind about what key decision makers are saying by listening to them in full . |
| 23 | Probably their teachers will speak to them in this style , though what the learners are likely to encounter when they join in conversations with native speakers is what we have referred to previously as a ‘ rapid , casual ’ style . |
| 24 | She 's here for another two weeks and if I do n't speak to her in those two weeks I 'm dropping her . |
| 25 | And I 'm telling you , do n't speak to me in that fashion or I 'll have to have a word with your father . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't speak to me in that tone ! ’ protested his wife , but nevertheless responding to the pressure of his hand in her back . |
| 28 | ‘ May I speak to you in private ? |
| 29 | Luke himself did n't matter to her in any way . |
| 30 | The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ . |