Example sentences of "[verb] to you [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 3 | Last year , I reported to you a deficit of three hundred and thirty thousand . |
| 4 | I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment ; but they are far too discoloured with rage . |
| 5 | I ca n't describe to you the agony of being told — and then having no means by which to find out … |
| 6 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 7 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 8 | Yeah but I got by these people who 've been to Jamaica , says that he gi if you give five pound tip for there , there what 's erm they do n't like it , it 's not enough , they wo n't speak to you no more . |
| 9 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 10 | A friend of mine came to you a few months back . |
| 11 | And so , first of all , let me present to you the battlefield . |
| 12 | ‘ You see — naturally she wants to talk to you a bit , to talk frankly about how things are , she wants to explain — ’ |
| 13 | I need to talk to you a minute ! |
| 14 | But because Mrs did that work with you yesterday you did not do your history work , so I 'm going to talk to you a bit and ask you some questions about the tiny bit we talked about to do with Roman Britain and how the Romans invaded Britain two thousand years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 16 | As I 've said to you the the old bastinal used to hang on the toilet wall outside was a whole row of them you know these these big galvanized bath things that were brought in on maybe on a Friday night . |
| 17 | Tell them , what I 've said to you the message that I have given to you . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's merely been the luck of the draw that Merry 's seen to you every time . ’ |
| 19 | You do n't , that 's why I asked whether Richard could join your committee so that he could voice to you the things he tried to explain to me which I think are |
| 20 | getting more and more intrigued by this and I 'd like to you a question to which I genuinely do n't know the answer . |
| 21 | This fascinating display holds , and reveals to you the vital spirit which eventually triumphed in 1945 . |
| 22 | I understand that Wyre Borough are forwarding to you a copy of a recent letter to their Environmental Health Officer from Nether Wyresdale Parish Council and I write to reiterate the concern felt by the Parish Council about this site especially the environmental and health hazards involved . |
| 23 | copy to you the first time |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 25 | Through my meanings , he opens to you a noble career , as my wife only can you enter upon it . |
| 26 | Not a house like that grim old farm , set in the middle of nowhere , with dank trees and mud clinging to you every step you took . |
| 27 | I believe that , that that procedure could apply to you the same as it can to Roger and Terry |
| 28 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 29 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 30 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |