Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned to her about renting , she said that she had n't , you know , took that idea out the window but she said the only thing is your at the beck and call of the landlord . |
| 2 | The idea occurred to him from observing children sticking waste prints on to pieces of broken earthenware . |
| 3 | Luckily , the children came to me before trying to catch him , or they might have been bitten . |
| 4 | As she muttered to herself about interfering Australians who could n't mind their own business she did n't hear Leo come back , or see him loom over the fence . |
| 5 | But it 's the story of how I did them , of what happened to me in doing them . |
| 6 | Jackson turned to me with pleading in his voice . |
| 7 | And when he turned to me before leaving he appeared to be still in a state of shock . |
| 8 | She glanced at the brief details on the card Jill handed to her before smiling at the man . |
| 9 | That period of his life also freed him for his experiments in other kinds of theatre which , although he never reverted to them after taking on his Stuttgart responsibilities , enriched his subsequent work . |
| 10 | It was a backhanded compliment , the best he could do , and he straightened up and nodded to her before taking his cup from the counter and making his way towards an empty table . |
| 11 | She had anticipated as much when he talked to her about leaving as they watched the sun go down over the Mediterranean during the honeymoon cruise . |
| 12 | I 'm kind of partial to Teles , so I talked to him about making a Tele version . |
| 13 | And then Sally Gunnell talked to me about stuffing her gold medal in a cupboard at home . |
| 14 | The women who talked to me about using their tears to deal with anger , recognized quite clearly what they were doing . |
| 15 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 16 | In recent years the discount houses have not only borrowed from banks , but also lent to them by purchasing certificates of deposit . |
| 17 | In the warmth of Penry 's arms she came face to face with the truth , survived it , and after a while she detached herself from the comforting embrace , accepting the box of tissues Penry passed to her before resuming his chair . |
| 18 | True , he was no oil painting , but she had long passed the age of needing good looks about her , and anyway , she admitted to herself with disarming frankness , her own beauty had long since gone . |
| 19 | Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings , and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours , as he had done before Christmas . |
| 20 | When people apologized to her for breaking a glass or making a remark which , upon sober reflection , they found themselves regretting she would smile the vague smile of the hostess who is at once too preoccupied and too superior to notice the faux pas of those around her . |
| 21 | The three men listened to her without interrupting . |
| 22 | However , it would almost always be undesirable behaviour in any practical system ; presumably people reacted to it by saying ‘ something has gone wrong ’ and making adjustments to get rid of it . |
| 23 | The old man spoke to them without looking round , and with surprising authority in his voice . |
| 24 | The earth on her fingers spoke to her , spoke to her of sowing in tears and reaping with joy ; of dying and growing . |
| 25 | He apologised to me for paying insufficient attention while entering a strange harbour . ’ |
| 26 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 27 | I said to him about holding back not giving us our quota I said they can see we 're not doing now . . |
| 28 | Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming . |
| 29 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 30 | In his letter of 30 December , he wrote to me about fixing a day and about the timing of the production of the play . |