Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 4 | Send to me in any event . |
| 5 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Almost all of them had crude magic swords , whose unsuppressed harmonics on the astral plane played hell with any delicate experiments in applied sorcery for miles around , but Rincewind did n't object to them on that score . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 10 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 11 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 14 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 15 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 16 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 17 | We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't speak to me in that tone ! ’ protested his wife , but nevertheless responding to the pressure of his hand in her back . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | take care love , and if I do n't see you , when I , I 'll speak to you before any way . |
| 24 | Luke himself did n't matter to her in any way . |
| 25 | Did it matter to you at that time who it was ? |
| 26 | Christians need to remember the words recorded of Jesus : " Not everyone who says to me on that day , Lord , Lord , shall enter the Kingdom but those who do the will of the Father " ( Matthew 7:21 ) . |
| 27 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 28 | My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case . |
| 29 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 30 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |