Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 2 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 3 | To her it was quite perfect , a light red costume made of silk , which seemed to cling to her like a second skin . |
| 4 | He looked for her and came to talk to her at every possible moment , at milking , butter-making , cheese-making , among chickens and among pigs . |
| 5 | She also came to talk to us at a recent training day about what the very elderly can and can not do . |
| 6 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 7 | Went to stay with them and Ruth came to read to you in the morning . |
| 8 | Oh no , Ann came to read to you in the mornings did n't she ? |
| 9 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 10 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 11 | To show this was not true , I began to talk to her in an animated way , and she was attentive , encouraging me with questions . |
| 12 | It began to look to him like a conspiracy . |
| 13 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 16 | And that was when her conscience , which because she 'd got something else to think about had stayed quiet , suddenly started to get to her about the way in which she was deceiving the man she loved . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I went to listen to him at the methodist church at er Newark about Oh quite a few years when |
| 19 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely . |
| 22 | I had to get to them through the once you get to them |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I wanted to talk to you about the things that er you 've got from the meetings and to just think about the pricing issues . |
| 28 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
| 29 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 30 | I feel like a warmed Up corpse , but I wanted to get to you before the police thought of it . |