Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 2 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 3 | I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton . |
| 4 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 5 | I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l |
| 6 | Theology must take as its starting-point the actuality of God 's self-revelation in Jesus Christ , disclosed to us by the Holy Spirit , and set its sights and adjust its compass by that . |
| 7 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 8 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 9 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 11 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 12 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 13 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 14 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 15 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 16 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 17 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 18 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 19 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 20 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 21 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 22 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 23 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 24 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
| 25 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 26 | The word of Jesus had come to her as a great challenge . |
| 27 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 28 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 29 | It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child . |
| 30 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |