Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter from Tangier to Ken in London — Orton was known to write to him on toilet paper — he told Williams that ‘ Bill and Mike ’ kept Ken 's picture on the bar for several days until replaced by a half-empty Chianti bottle . |
| 2 | Incidentally , although it 's impractical for people to call Ampeg , I have a box number for anyone who might want to write to me for advice . |
| 3 | If there is anyone in your parish whom you think might be interested and suitable , perhaps you would draw their attention to these posts and encourage them to write to me for application forms and job description . |
| 4 | And I think it 's worth s er reading out that the Civic Society have asked er Betty in Arundel to write to us in order to express their appreciation of the work that 's been carried out in the church free car park . |
| 5 | God knows — I shall make every effort to write to you of course , but I am such a bad writer and after a while it begins to be very difficult to write the essence of one 's personality and atmosphere on paper . |
| 6 | Yet ne'ertheless , My spritely brethren , I propend to you In resolution to keep Helen still ; For t is a cause that has no mean dependence Upon our joint and several dignities . |
| 7 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 8 | One indication of current priorities is that Making Belfast Work has less money committed to it in total over four years than is spent on prisons in a single year . |
| 9 | Hence partners must inform the other partners of all personal profits which have accrued to them by virtue of their being partners . |
| 10 | The longer wavelengths reflected by , for example , the leaves of trees in autumn , appear to us as reds and oranges , while the shorter wavelengths which reach our eyes from the ocean we see as greens and blues . |
| 11 | There are a few other gardens in the Trust that would appeal to me after Killerton — places like Sheffield Park , Stourhead and Lanhydrock immediately spring to mind . |
| 12 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 13 | Not only her own people but other people used to come to her for advice … |
| 14 | now , I mean my girls used to come to me with boy , boy friends as they grew up and then husbands , but they always help , they always |
| 15 | I was concentrating too hard to feel elated or amazed that I had actually trained this wild creature to come to me at will . |
| 16 | Sure enough , St Augustine saved him from shipwreck on the way back , he agreed to the translation , and ordered Ælfstan , abbot of St Augustine 's , to come to him at Whitsuntide . |
| 17 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 18 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 19 | Said John , well , we 've got other ideas we 'd like you to come to us for Christmas , so I thought , as I said to Brenda , you do n't turn down an invitation from your own children |
| 20 | I do n't think Tom probably approved , but she well actually when they used to come to us on Sunday I used to take them to er , to Belver Fall me and David , Thelma 's husband and he 's er , his father was a superintendent so , do you want any tea ? |
| 21 | This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle . |
| 22 | I said to Cheryl please do n't go and invite to come to yours for dinner now and because insult us cos we 're not without him cos I 'm prepared to go I look forward to that . |
| 23 | I assure my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , North-West ( Mr. Malins ) that an examination of other elected assemblies which can be paralleled to ours in Europe , America or elsewhere shows that we in the British House of Commons spend three , four or even five times longer debating legislation . |
| 24 | He proposed to her on Valentine 's Day 1989 . |
| 25 | Her punishment for wanting that English Protestant , my father , who proposed to her by telegram . |
| 26 | ‘ I think I just proposed to you in front of most of Great Britain . ’ |
| 27 | Instead , Paul , in his closing address , implicitly rebuked the Theological Commission for having refused to confer upon the Virgin Mary the title of ‘ Mother of the Church ’ in the chapter devoted to her in De Ecclesia . |
| 28 | They do n't really talk about what 's happened in the past , all they 're bothered about is what 's happening to them at present . |
| 29 | ‘ It is very hard for me to comprehend what is happening to me at home in Australia let alone here in Britain and around the world . |
| 30 | Laura had said once , when he grumbled to her about Mr Simpson . |