Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Secretary of State please ask the chairman of British Rail to report to him as a matter of urgency on the state of British Rail in Wales an on its financing ? |
| 2 | In modern terms , he evaluated who was to be evangelised and was willing to take responsibility to go to them in the work of evangelism . |
| 3 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 4 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 5 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 6 | and er the people in the flat above us had to pass our door to get to them in the same way that we had to pass the people , tenants below doors to get to their accommodation . |
| 7 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 8 | There is no logical starting point , since we bring to a literary text simultaneously two faculties , however imperfectly developed : our ability to respond to it as a literary work and our ability to observe its language . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My response is not a traditional wind-up speech , because this is the hon. Lady 's debate and I am sure that she will receive the leave of the House to reply to it at the appropriate time . |