Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 2 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 3 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Each corporation would tend to attract to itself a ‘ clientele ’ consisting of those preferring its particular payout ratio , but one clientele would be as good as another in terms of the valuation it would imply for firms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 11 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 12 | When the boy told him how the police had made the arrests , the Prince called the division commander , whose men had arrested the twenty-four , to listen to what the boy had to say . |
| 13 | From the Reagan administration 's first decision to listen to what the Israelis were saying , the Iran-contra affair had found its firm foundation in political and diplomatic illusion . |
| 14 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 15 | With that side of his face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing . |
| 16 | Once men were released from trying to defend them as scientific documents they were able to listen to what the text was actually saying . |
| 17 | It is important to democracy that government should be not merely ready , but obliged , to listen to what the people ( in all its multiplicity ) has to say . |
| 18 | The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed . |
| 19 | I 'll leave you to talk to him a minute . |
| 20 | She tried to talk to me a job , but we sort of joked away . |
| 21 | I really enjoy writing dialogue ; I tend to talk to myself a lot anyway so I suppose I 'm used to it . |
| 22 | ‘ You see — naturally she wants to talk to you a bit , to talk frankly about how things are , she wants to explain — ’ |
| 23 | I need to talk to you a minute ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 26 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 27 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 28 | To belong to it a man had to be ‘ someone ’ , a person who counted as an individual , because of his wealth , his capacity to command other men , or otherwise to influence them . |
| 29 | He was Otto I 's brother , and his biographer was not slow to apply to him the biblical phrase , ‘ a royal priesthood ’ . |
| 30 | A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358 , when Ludovic of Hungary forced the Venetians to cede to him the whole of Dalmatia , except for Ragusa . |