Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] in [det] " 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 | Send to me in any event . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
| 6 | But Christopher Taylor will happily chat to you in any one of 18 languages . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 10 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 11 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She 's here for another two weeks and if I do n't speak to her in those two weeks I 'm dropping her . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't speak to me in that tone ! ’ protested his wife , but nevertheless responding to the pressure of his hand in her back . |
| 19 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 20 | Luke himself did n't matter to her in any way . |
| 21 | Listen to yourself in that , it 's good |
| 22 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 23 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 24 | Following on from the theory of inflation as a display , it would be interesting to know if anything has ever been observed on the breeding activity of these fish , as an even more outrageous through occurs to me in that maybe the Puffer is one sex of the species exhibiting its mating display . |
| 25 | ‘ Who do you think you are , to talk to me in that manner ? ’ |
| 26 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by : ( a ) the executors , representatives or disponees of any person who held a licence in respect of premises situated within the area of the board and who has died before the expiry of the licence ; or ( b ) the trustee , judicial factor or curator bonis of any person holding such a licence who has become bankrupt , insolvent or incapable before the expiry of the licence ; transfer the licence to the applicant if the applicant is in possession of the premises . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by a person other than an individual natural person , substitute another employee or agent of the applicant for the employee or agent mentioned in section 11 or 26 of this Act . |
| 28 | That enhancement scheme is being prepared now and reference should be made to it in this document in respect of . |
| 29 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 30 | Alice would have liked to talk to her , for she felt drawn to her in some kind of kinship ; but Caroline did not feel this , it seemed . |