Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am writing to you about your father . |
| 3 | Once again I am writing to you on behalf of Pat McDonald , who is in Riyadh . |
| 4 | I am writing to you on my views of fox hunting . |
| 5 | I am writing to you for information about the kind of courses I read about in the article on the Features Page of last week 's Daily Telegraph which gave the address of your organization . |
| 6 | Q : I am writing to you after reading the article ‘ Upgrading your Hard Disk ’ in the June 1992 issue . |
| 7 | I am writing to you in my capacity as Chairman of the Committee for International Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops ' Conference of England and Wales , to express our concern about the danger of nuclear proliferation . |
| 8 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 9 | The call that particularly mystifies me , when I am subjected to it on journey after journey , is the admonition from catering staff to intending consumers of their junk food to be sure to bring their small change with them . |
| 10 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |
| 11 | I 'm writing to you with some good news from Pampers — for your baby , and your baby 's world . |
| 12 | Q I 'm writing to you about one of the programs on your November Mega Disk . |
| 13 | But one thing I can tell you about Port Vale , the ground has vastly changed from last season , the terracing 's been improved , their seating , it 's pure luxury apart from the press box , because I still have to climb that suspect wooden ladder , and perched on top of the main stand is a shed where I 'm speaking to you from Jane . |
| 14 | I 'm , I 'm talking to him about the planned s filing system as well , which is |
| 15 | I remember once I took you by the shoulders and said , ‘ Listen , love , I 'm talking to you about your mother . ’ |
| 16 | I 've never covered things like comparative questions , when I talk to you about close and , you know basically what I 'm talking to you about |
| 17 | I were talking to him on Friday , and er , I mean , they 've not been down there five minutes . |
| 18 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 19 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 20 | Did you get that bit erm , when I was speaking to you about how everybody hates you and stuff ? |
| 21 | and I I was taken to it by friends . |
| 22 | I was talking to her at a women 's group meeting — we were playing records . |
| 23 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 24 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 25 | Well I was talking to him about it , I said I reckon you 've spent the you 've spent quite a bit now so you might as well just go another get final . |
| 26 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 27 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |
| 28 | Like , cos I was talking to him in the party , yeah ? |
| 29 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |
| 30 | If I was talking to you as my pal , I 'd get done for idling my time . |