Example sentences of "i [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 2 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 3 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 4 | I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long . |
| 5 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 6 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 7 | I 'm sure I 've I said to you on the phone I think . |
| 8 | I speak to her on the phone almost every day and she 's really important to me . ’ |
| 9 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 10 | I notice I refer to him in the past tense . |
| 11 | As I indicated to you on the phone on Friday , I believe it is appropriate that I formally review the position of the sale of your company following receipt of the indicative offers . |
| 12 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 13 | I talk to Gog about rain , I talk to him about the AOL , but he never listens . |
| 14 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
| 15 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 16 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 17 | ‘ I talked to her through the door . |
| 18 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 19 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
| 21 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
| 23 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 24 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
| 25 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 26 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 27 | I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures . |
| 28 | Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand . |
| 29 | Thank you for giving me brief details of the grounds maintenance agreed for Scorton Playing Field when I spoke to you on the phone recently . |
| 30 | I spoke to you on the phone at work er have you got your home number ? |