Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 2 | I have been asked to write to you about the street light outside Annfield on Station Lane Scorton . |
| 3 | Sir : I was prompted to write to you by the letter from J. Dawson in the July issue . |
| 4 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 5 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 6 | Yeah , so she 's going to come to me on the bus on the twenty third . |
| 7 | God longs for all people to come to him like the son returned to the father in the parable . |
| 8 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 9 | Peter called to him : ‘ Lord if it is you , tell me to come to you over the water . ’ |
| 10 | I think it would be when the committee comes to the director of property services and says , we would like this to happen , that 's when we 'd have to come to you before the application |
| 11 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 12 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 13 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 14 | We need biblical ways of practising the presence of God and to listen to him in the power of his Spirit . |
| 15 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 16 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 17 | I used to talk to Him on the wireless — still do sometimes . |
| 18 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
| 19 | And I have to talk to him on the phone and I 'm saying speak to him very well . |
| 20 | to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely . |
| 21 | Susan had tagged a uniformed cop on the beat ill the distance , and guessed she would n't want to talk to him about the corpse . |
| 22 | Now , just when she was bursting to talk to him about the job , he was going to be less than forthcoming . |
| 23 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 24 | She wanted to talk to him in a way she had never wanted to talk to anyone before , but he was next door , not here . |
| 25 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 26 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 27 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 28 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 29 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 30 | Since he refuses to talk to me over the phone , he 'll have the pleasure of talking to me in person instead ! |