Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [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 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 5 | I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills . |
| 6 | ‘ Who do you think you are , to talk to me in that manner ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Marjorie , I 've got to talk to you about this business , but I ca n't do it now . |
| 8 | ‘ A few things have cropped up that I did n't have a chance to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 10 | No , but if the hon. Gentleman has views that he would like to express to me on that closure , I should be delighted to hear from him . |
| 11 | Conversely the under-confident person may be hesitant to predict danger or to react to it with sufficient purpose or determination . |
| 12 | There had been no need to cling to him with such ardour — no need to respond to his kiss with such wanton abandon . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister 's formulation is that it is for the other 11 member states now to demonstrate to us in watertight treaty terms that the right of all member states to determine their own foreign policies is not being abandoned or abdicated . |
| 14 | It would be tedious and is not , I think , necessary to examine them all but I must seek to trace the development of the law through the main decisions and I intend to refer to them in chronological order . |
| 15 | Many affidavits were filed in these proceedings , but for our purposes it has not been necessary to refer to them in any detail , because the facts are carefully summarised in the judgment of Mann L.J . |
| 16 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
| 17 | That you would continue to lie to me after every- thing — ? ’ |
| 18 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 19 | ‘ And now , if we could get back to the point , I believe you were about to explain to me about this proposition of yours ? ’ |
| 20 | If you have any comments you would like to make to me on this exercise I shall be most grateful to receive them . |
| 21 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 24 | I want to speak to you about this street lighting . |