Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 2 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 3 | Both bodies publish application forms recommended for use when applying to them for the appointment of experts or arbitrators : copies of the forms are reproduced in Appendices G and H. The Law Society has also published its requested procedure : see [ 1986 ] Law Society 's Gazette 2542 , reprinted in Appendix B. It is important that applicants follow the procedure of applying on prescribed forms . |
| 4 | Bernard I must tell you , listening to you at the moment is Simon Wigg on one of our other lines erm just a word about Simon before I bring him in . |
| 5 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 6 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 11 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 12 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 13 | At eighty , eighty five , ninety ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten going to you at the back , going on , sir ? |
| 14 | But she 's adding to it by the month with a lucrative round of speaking engagements all over the world at up to £125,000 a time . |
| 15 | Once she has capitulated and goes off to gain her daughter 's assent he switches faces , turning to us in the middle of a line : ‘ Bear her my true love 's kiss ; and so , farewell/Relenting fool , and shallow-changing woman ! ’ ( 431–2 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I think … ’ he began , pointing to it with the point of his umbrella . |
| 17 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 18 | Det Sgt Pat Lewis , of the child protection team , confirmed she had been examined by a doctor and added : ‘ We will be speaking to her in the morning . |
| 19 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's hardly speaking to me at the moment — except to accuse me of stealing her golf-clubs . ’ |
| 21 | At present some think it weak-kneed through lack of characters but Brian , speaking to us in the Belfry , has been talking to possible sponsors . |
| 22 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 23 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 24 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 25 | His fleshy paunch was hanging over his sweaty jeans with the legs of his trousers clinging to him with the viscosity of four week old socks sticking to the bedroom wall . |
| 26 | She grasped his body , his hair , clinging to him on the brink of chaos . |
| 27 | Worse , I could see clearly the image of Mala clinging to him within the circle of the powerful golden arm . |
| 28 | At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear . |
| 29 | I felt very lonely , but half an hour later I heard his voice calling to me through the window . |
| 30 | He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her . |