Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times . |
| 2 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 3 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 4 | But Worcester police want to talk to her about the withdrawal of £130,000 from funds . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe they want to talk to it about a burning truck , ’ said Masklin . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to talk to you about the glass of water with the creature in it , ’ Matilda said . |
| 7 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 8 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 9 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 10 | He was actually expressly forbidden to speak to me about the matter . |
| 11 | Another person with a very busy schedule , it was good of her to find time to come to speak to us on the subject of working with the mentally handicapped . |
| 12 | I want to speak to you as a man of the world . ’ |
| 13 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 14 | Susan had tagged a uniformed cop on the beat ill the distance , and guessed she would n't want to talk to him about the corpse . |
| 15 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 16 | Baldwin saw Chamberlain and said , ‘ Austen , when Sam has gone I shall want to talk to you about the Foreign Office . ’ ’ |
| 17 | To her it was quite perfect , a light red costume made of silk , which seemed to cling to her like a second skin . |
| 18 | Since he refuses to talk to me over the phone , he 'll have the pleasure of talking to me in person instead ! |
| 19 | He looked for her and came to talk to her at every possible moment , at milking , butter-making , cheese-making , among chickens and among pigs . |
| 20 | She also came to talk to us at a recent training day about what the very elderly can and can not do . |
| 21 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 22 | Went to stay with them and Ruth came to read to you in the morning . |
| 23 | Oh no , Ann came to read to you in the mornings did n't she ? |
| 24 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 25 | Yeah , so she 's going to come to me on the bus on the twenty third . |
| 26 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
| 27 | Well waiting to talk to us on the telephone now is Rupert Lancaster , who 's the managing director of Foders U K. |
| 28 | I 'd like to talk to you about a couple of perigrines you 've sold . |
| 29 | I would like to talk to you for a minute or two . ‘ |
| 30 | Well , well , I wonder what 's going to happen to me in a place like this … ’ |