Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 2 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 3 | I speak to her on the phone almost every day and she 's really important to me . ’ |
| 4 | I notice I refer to him in the past tense . |
| 5 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 6 | I talk to Gog about rain , I talk to him about the AOL , but he never listens . |
| 7 | I belong to him by the right of creation ! |
| 8 | It could read something like this : It is with continued concern that I write to you about the suffering of the Cambodian people and put forward the following suggestions re where government aid should be concentrated . |
| 9 | I write to you in the full possession of my faculties and not as a madman but as the brother you know . |
| 10 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 11 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 12 | You walk to it along the foot of the gorge , through tunnels at one point , and then climb about twelve pitches that are never harder than HVS . |
| 13 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 14 | You speak to me like the stepbrother speaks to all the family . |
| 15 | It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course . |
| 16 | You get to it from the cliff-top . ’ |
| 17 | It is also easier to assume that you have someone 's undivided attention when you talk to them on the ‘ phone . |
| 18 | I look back now and think we are actually still doing that , not in the military aspect , in civvy street , we 've got people , real nice people , you talk to them on the street and you get them at the kill and the hackles go up , you can see the adrenalin pumping round their body , you can see the kind of excitement in their eyes and you can see the terrier men grabbing by the the scruff of the neck , bleeding and then throwing . |
| 19 | We listen to them in the car . |
| 20 | ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says . |
| 21 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 22 | Whether developments in Europe since the Second World War have wrought the sort of constitutional change brought about by the emergence of the Dominions after the First World War , raises exactly this question and we turn to it in the next chapter . |
| 23 | When we return to them with the scrutiny of our adult minds , they appear as towering shelters , full of colour and minutely-remembered detail . |
| 24 | We pray to you for the quiet mind , |
| 25 | We pray to you for the enlightened imagination , |
| 26 | We pray to you for the mastered will , |
| 27 | We pray to you for the life which is hid in You , |
| 28 | We pray to you for the stalwart faith , |
| 29 | Has an anybody come to you through the |
| 30 | But they 've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they |