Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time . |
| 2 | This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand . |
| 3 | He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins . |
| 4 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 5 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 6 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Would you talk to me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 9 | It could also mean ‘ Will you talk to me for a few minutes , I feel sad . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 11 | ‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ? |
| 12 | He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler . |
| 13 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 14 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 15 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 16 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 17 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 18 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 19 | Come back to me in a few weeks with another research proposal . |
| 20 | There was a multitude of small tracks that began promisingly and died to nothing within a few yards , tracks that might be the paths of men or of deer , or wolves , or wild boar . |
| 21 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 22 | Her instinct is to relate to everyone in the same way . |
| 23 | Now these standards need to be visible , common to everyone in the same job , and fixed , er , like a yardstick , by which the employee can measure his activities for himself . |
| 24 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 25 | If I could just talk to someone for a few minutes . |
| 26 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 27 | I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you think that I would make love to you for a few days and then let you walk out of my life without trying to get in touch ? ’ |
| 29 | You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one . |
| 30 | The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way . |