Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 2 | The program will then work down the list of pieces that have stitch patterns allocated to them and ask whether you want to superimpose the piece on to the stitch pattern . |
| 3 | Fitzroy Maclean spoke to them and discovered that they were not at all suspicious . |
| 4 | God knows why but the cardinal had taken a liking to them and decreed that no one should harm them . |
| 5 | Accordingly , in the present case it would have been , I think , impossible for the solicitors , however careful they had been , to make an assessment which accurately reflected the remuneration which would have been paid to them and to counsel after the matter had been considered under the arrangements provided by the legal aid board . |
| 6 | All , all of these companies to them and said if you endorse this we 'll give you . |
| 7 | The receptionist welcomes the guests with a smile and greeting , hands the pen to them and asks if they will kindly complete the registration form ( Fig. 3.8 ) or sign the hotel register ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 8 | There is an important point I want to come to , and that is the Office of Fair Trading , in connection with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , have brought out a code of practice last year , which we fully endorse and are members of , and put on our letterheads , which means that if people are dissatisfied with erm a rejection of a claim , or any other matter come to that , they have the right to write to them and complain and have their case investigated . |
| 9 | Again , the farmers spoken to liked the ATB system described to them and confirmed that , ‘ they felt training on a continuing basis , with an emphasis on feeding and handling techniques , health , etc. , was the best approach ’ . |
| 10 | To me that means that the Parish Council have moved qu a long way from their outright objection lodged in the summer . |
| 11 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 12 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 13 | One of the Officers turned to me and indicated that I should push off . |
| 14 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 15 | A few days later Lord Thorneycroft , the Party Chairman , and Alastair ( now Lord ) McAlpine came to me and asked if we could stage another for the European Elections — three weeks later . |
| 16 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 17 | He then turned to me and asked if I was signing a contract too . |
| 18 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 19 | She turned to me and asked if I had spoken to my husband today , was he well , and the children . |
| 20 | ‘ About forty minutes before the train was due to arrive this man came up to me and asked if I 'd be interested in making five hundred francs . |
| 21 | I have tried to bring him to me and failed and now I can not hope any longer . |
| 22 | He just came to me and said that he was unhappy and I said OK . |
| 23 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 24 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 25 | After a cursory examination , he turned to me and said that we must get the boy to hospital quickly . |
| 26 | However , the er holder came to me and said that they , he would like to invest a considerable sum in new equipment , refrigerators blah blah blah . |
| 27 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 28 | ‘ Then somewhere about halfway , we were doing a scene , and after we had finished he turned to me and smiled and said , ‘ Got me . ’ |
| 29 | okay , so if I mean if you come to me and see and say we wan na exchange on tomorrow |
| 30 | So they started their ministry off together , and I think it 's something quite special to me and to recognise that we have sent three people off on a journey and three people , two here , have come to the end of a journey and just part of the journey and are beginning to discover that will be discovered in the life of the three human beings , human beings |