Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been asked to write to you on this matter because this hazard was drawn to your attention in my letter of 18th April 1991 following the Annual Parish Meeting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So , there 's something given , that entitles feedback I was giving you then , some people referred to it as this . |
| 6 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 7 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 8 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 9 | He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time . |
| 10 | Presented to them like this , dace can do hardly anything else but accept your bait . |
| 11 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 12 | We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Cilla Black wo n't speak to me to this day because when I was a critic , I wrote a very warm piece about her , but during the course of it , I said , ‘ She 's quite good-looking , but she does have the nose of a rather careful boxer . ’ |
| 15 | I must speak to you about this . ’ |
| 16 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 17 | An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time . |
| 18 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 19 | Never speak to me of this again ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Whenever you speak to me of this Harry of yours , your face and , indeed , your voice reveal that he is of special importance to you . |
| 21 | His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory . |
| 22 | As this substance has properties akin to those of ferments I have called it a ‘ Lysozyme ’ , and shall refer to it by this name throughout the communication . |
| 23 | It was difficult to talk to him with this going on . |
| 24 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 25 | I simply did n't recognize her at first , and to tell you the truth , I was a bit embarrassed when Uncle Félix came over to talk to me with this perfectly stunning girl on his arm . |
| 26 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 27 | He 'd desperately needed to talk to someone about this and when he 'd thought about it , William was the only person he could talk to . |
| 28 | ‘ Marjorie , I 've got to talk to you about this business , but I ca n't do it now . |
| 29 | ‘ … I wanted to talk to you about this and that . ’ |
| 30 | We will be glad to talk to you about this before you borrow . |