Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do you want me to talk to her ? ’
2 Perhaps you did n't want me to talk to you .
3 But no one can make me talk to you .
4 They 're one of the reasons I now make everyone come to me , rather than traipsing round the world . ’
5 She asked me to apologize to you , should I see you , for not having answered your last letter .
6 They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit .
7 At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following :
8 His superiority over them can not but make them seem to us inferior , innocent , or naïve , dupes who trust too easily and are soon outwitted .
9 I mean I said to her today I mean there was this costume there and I said here get that one there I said french maid outfit , nurse 's outfit .
10 Well like I mean I said to him I do n't think , you know I mean it was just ideas I think he said I 'm not saying do it .
11 I mean I said to him oh er what he 's really got to get really is a cooker erm cos I said to him , I , I said to him if you really want to try and move in next week then you have n't got another week 's money to pay for that , you know
12 The recommendations in paragraph ten er ask you to approve the capital programme and the revenue budget and the staffing for the committee and that , that 's the increase of the one post I mean I referred to you earlier and if the committee approves this budget , will put forward to the Policy and Resources Committee on the thirty first of January which will consolidate the budgets for all the er services and make final decisions on how that 's to be and reset for the next .
13 I say to you , well I mean I say to you it 's not through , that 's accepted .
14 ‘ You want me to talk to you .
15 oh you want , you really want me to speak to him ?
16 We did not go in search of miracles , we invited them to come to us .
17 I mean er I 'll I 'll still need them to come to me for er entering
18 I visit the horses twice a day , taking titbits to encourage them to trot to me so I can make sure they are sound !
19 I must confess I was surprised , curious and highly delighted when er you invited me to speak to you here today and er I 'm very and sincerely pleased that you did .
20 Although families and friends urge them to turn to him and to respond to him , and to receive him .
21 No , I think that 's what they told you to take Oh , how often you expect me to write to you .
22 She wants me to talk to you . ’
23 Given the density of heroin-using networks , word spread quickly that a research programme was being undertaken and later informants frequently mentioned that the fieldworker had previously interviewed someone known to them .
24 But I do n't know I said to her I know how to bloody manage .
25 But it would n't work now : I 've got to have something to show her , otherwise she 'll know I lied to her .
26 ‘ If you want someone to talk to her — ’
27 His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive .
28 The man says , how can I except somebody explain to me ?
29 His English was perfect and Munro found himself warming to him .
30 I did n't know you talked to her .
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