Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all that matters to me at the moment . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What matters to me in this cooperative , ’ he wrote to his wife from Helsinki , ‘ is that they are all well-established people , with left-wing sympathies . |
| 3 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 4 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 5 | It 's the oldest lyrical theme in the world and David Gedge adheres to it with laudable steadfastness . |
| 6 | ‘ This is my favourite place , ’ Jeremy shouts to her above the music , ‘ fantastic girls here , really alive and witty . |
| 7 | And thins to nothing but the wish I made |
| 8 | He tries to convey to her the vital importance that their complex relationship has to him as a counterpoint to his work on the New Jerusalem . |
| 9 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 10 | In rural areas , the figure drops to one in three . |
| 11 | She rightly complained : ‘ Gustave never writes to me of anything except Art — or himself . ’ |
| 12 | Further to my note of 11th December , Susannah Wainman of SAWD Books writes to me with more details of the competition for a new logo for the Independent Publishers Guild . |
| 13 | Well every time I send something out writes to me on bloody DOPACS saying this is not the way to disseminate this information . |
| 14 | ‘ And she writes to me about a man like this ! ’ |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman writes to me about any individual cases , I shall respond in detail . |
| 16 | But the best thing was gaining a pen-pal who writes to me in Chinese . |
| 17 | During her three days working in the Toronto Skydome she made friends with an athlete who now writes to her in Chinese . |
| 18 | We had never met her before she came , yet she immediately called us Mummy and Daddy , and still writes to us in this way from Nigeria . |
| 19 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |
| 20 | Mrs Billy Bond writes to us from Forest Row , East Sussex to say that most knitting machine shops are run by friendly and helpful people but Knitmates is outstanding . |
| 21 | The president , in the modern age , is the key political actor and the public constantly looks to him for initiatives , services and solutions . |
| 22 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 23 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 24 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 25 | But this girl her name is Monica she looks to me as if she 's suicidal , she could do anything . " |
| 26 | ‘ It looks to me as if there 's some system of getting service that you do n't grasp . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It looks to me as if someone tried to murder him , ’ whispered Dexter as an afterword . |
| 28 | It looks to me as if the Doctor manipulated Paula Engado 's feelings with a faked message from her adulterous lover Cheryl Russell to the effect that Cheryl would n't leave her husband , Sam . |
| 29 | And it looks to me as if you do , too ? ’ |
| 30 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |