Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 2 | ‘ I got to talk to you , man , alone . ’ |
| 3 | I got to talk to you . |
| 4 | I got to react to him . |
| 5 | They met , he insists , soon after , not before , he began presenting Dance Energy — ‘ I got talking to her and I liked that woman ’ — and his admiration for her today is obvious . |
| 6 | Sandy was already in the side , and I got talking to him again , Calero was struggling , and I said I might not have a bag for the Ryder Cup . |
| 7 | So a fellow named Mr worked at he was a neighbour , I got talking to him he says I 'll mention it and you can come . |
| 8 | I tried to say to him , Mark I think you 're wasting your time . |
| 9 | I tried to explain to her that few elderly people can remain in a state of reforming fervour all their lives ! |
| 10 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 11 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 12 | I tried to explain to him why I thought they should , just because they should be interested in the security of the United States . |
| 13 | I tried to talk to him , but I could n't understand what he said . |
| 14 | I tried to talk to him about it several times , but he would walk out on me . |
| 15 | If I tried to talk to him , I used to start crying and he would say , ‘ Oh God ! ’ and tell me I was useless . |
| 16 | I tried to talk to her sensibly but she just would n't listen . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 18 | Last time I tried to get to him he was accepting no callers . |
| 19 | She was always there and each time I tried to speak to her . |
| 20 | I ventured to write to her , offering to send my manuscript if she wished , for ( as I said ) it would be a pity to make mistakes about a living writer who was there to correct them . |
| 21 | I stopped to listen to him during rehearsal . |
| 22 | Yes I 'd to talk to her . |
| 23 | I 'd said to her nervously . |
| 24 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
| 25 | Er I seriously wish I 'd said to them you know , I 'm , I 'm phoning it a fortnight in advance because I want to stick to the arrangements . |
| 26 | It was what I 'd said to him , near enough . |
| 27 | well they were always against me , well Bill was during the war , what I 'd done to them , finished all the decorating , put shelves up , go on the slate to put his aerial up , he would n't go up , I had to climb out my bedroom window onto the gutter and its a wonder I did n't kill myself then , put his aerial up and |
| 28 | I 'd written to them , and I feel they may have got the letter in time . ’ |
| 29 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 30 | And my mum , my mum was sat in The Weathers with me and I 'd talked to her and everything and I did n't even know that that |