Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After talking to her for a while I asked her if she was English . |
| 2 | The track along Rhossili Down 's ridge top was rough and rocky , with a wild west sort of feel to it as a few hardy-looking cattle wandered about at will on the humped and pitted pastures to the right , which my map indicated are the remains of neolithic burial chambers . |
| 3 | My staff tell me that the elderly people have sort of taken to it like a duck to water almost . |
| 4 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 5 | This means that removal of the event or object prevents the child from responding to it in a pleasant and rewarding way . |
| 6 | Nor were their questioners less than frank in referring to it as a " union " . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Beckenham , since I am in some sort indebted to you , I will , if you please , refrain from making you any answer , for I can not take it upon myself to do so without speaking to you in a manner which must sound both insolent and ungrateful ! ’ |
| 8 | It was in meeting him on this ground that the British came closest to responding to him as a worthy adversary . |
| 9 | Finding out about your client provides opportunities for talking to him in a relaxed and warm manner and for showing that you are interested in him as a person . |
| 10 | Er , perhaps , er , something like that is gon na happen to you in a fortnight 's time , this Christmas . |
| 11 | I 'm gon na to speak to you in a minute . |
| 12 | One should note , however , that although a mother bird may encourage her chicks to fly by calling to them from a branch some distance away , holding some tasty morsel in her beak as an inducement , all the same , she is not actually teaching them to fly . |
| 13 | Traditionally the Bank of England supported the discount houses , and thus indirectly the banking sector as a whole , by lending to them at a rate of its own choosing , known since 1971 as minimum lending rate . |
| 14 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Mr Kohl helps keep Mr Schäuble 's stock high by referring to him as a future chancellor , but by ‘ future ’ he does not mean ‘ soon ’ . |