Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 2 | Firstly , an emotion may be expressed involuntarily or voluntarily ; if I say something in a ‘ happy ’ way , this may be because I feel happy , or because I want to convey to you the impression that I am happy . |
| 3 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 4 | How should I begin to describe to you the many enchantments of this isle ? |
| 5 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
| 6 | Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies . |
| 7 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
| 8 | As I 've said to you the the old bastinal used to hang on the toilet wall outside was a whole row of them you know these these big galvanized bath things that were brought in on maybe on a Friday night . |
| 9 | Tell them , what I 've said to you the message that I have given to you . |
| 10 | So , I hope I 've introduced to you the very different styles by which microbes produce disease and indicated the balance of factors involved . |
| 11 | The chief executive of Newcrest Mining , the joint-venture partner which had planned to mine the site , denounced Hawke 's decision as a dangerous precedent . |
| 12 | She 'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern ; I had the history of Notting Hill Gate , the use of a camera obscura by Vermeer , why Charles Lamb 's sister murdered their mother , and a history of Tamla Motown . |
| 13 | So you check your understanding and you 've listened to what the guy has said . |
| 14 | Okay you 've talked to them the phone right and you 're gon na go and sign them up . |
| 15 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 16 | Well Mr er pleading guilty to these offenses and we 've listened to what the solicitor has said on your behalf the main offence of having no excise licence you 'll be fined seventy five pounds and be willing to pay eighty pounds thirty three back duty and ten pounds costs and for the offenses of failing to produce you 'll be fined ten pounds for each of those three offenses . |
| 17 | Now Mr er you pleaded guilty to these offences and we 've listened to what the solicitor has said on your behalf . |
| 18 | We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask . |
| 19 | With that side of his face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing . |
| 20 | He tries to convey to her the vital importance that their complex relationship has to him as a counterpoint to his work on the New Jerusalem . |
| 21 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 22 | To turn the knife in the wound , he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act . |
| 23 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |