Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 2 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 3 | Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ? |
| 4 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 5 | Mr Calvert was n't fit enough to talk to us about the bookings . |
| 6 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 7 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
| 8 | it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm |
| 9 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |
| 10 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 11 | The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum . |
| 12 | I do not have the room to articulate this opposition here , but only to point to it via the already observed generalising tendency in de Man 's thought . |
| 13 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 14 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 15 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 16 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 17 | They can literally come to you at the museum can they ? |
| 18 | Information is only appended to them in the form of agreement comments during their various states . |
| 19 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 20 | Call the Coastguard for information if in doubt — they would rather speak to you on the phone than have to rescue you on the water ! |
| 21 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 22 | And Jesus does n't just chat to us for the sake of chatting to us , he , when he speaks to us his words have authority , they have input , they are vital and we must pay attention to them . |
| 23 | I did not speak to her during the journey , and when we arrived in Ruritania , I left the train at Zenda , a small town outside the capital . |
| 24 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 25 | And as my few Acquaintance did not take to me upon the Account of Poetry , so they will scarcely fall off upon its ill Success |
| 26 | If you have any of the conditions listed , your doctor may have already spoken to you about the importance of healthy eating , and a healthy lifestyle . |
| 27 | There 's one other area that 's just sprung to me about the trainee and their actual ability . |
| 28 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 29 | ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’ |
| 30 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |