Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 2 | Watching it or listening to it on the |
| 3 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 4 | If land is given to an infant by will or conveyed to him on an intestacy the legal estate vests in the representatives of the deceased who hold it in trust for the infant . |
| 5 | For further information on LCCI Retail awards please contact or write to her at the address below . |
| 6 | For further information on these awards contact or write to her at the address below . |
| 7 | For further details on this scheme including performance criteria , assessment requirements and how to register , please contact or write to him at the address below . |
| 8 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 9 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 10 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 11 | Now calm down , and listen to me for a minute . |
| 12 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 13 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
| 14 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 15 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 16 | In front of the gate and connected to it by a high causeway was a tall grey watchtower whose summit commanded the approach down the valley . |
| 17 | We need biblical ways of practising the presence of God and to listen to him in the power of his Spirit . |
| 18 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 19 | and told to us in the days before he died |
| 20 | I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape . |
| 21 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 22 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 23 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 24 | I attach a copy of a standard contract which I would be grateful if you could sign and return to me with the invoice for your fee . |
| 25 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 26 | Both Mr Megrahi and Mr Fhima told me they would be happy to meet Scottish or American investigators and talk to them about the case . ’ |
| 27 | Greet the wise one , and talk to them of the fears that you wish to overcome . |
| 28 | For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time . |
| 29 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 30 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |