Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We give you thanks , almighty Father , for revealing to us in Christ , the light of nations , the mystery of our salvation . |
| 2 | By the way , after writing to you on Sunday , the mood came , and I wrote the story of Kheydius , 12 close pages , straight off , almost satisfactorily , too . |
| 3 | After listening to it on his headphones for a few minutes , Syrian George stopped the tape , looked Mikalis up and down and turned to Coleman . |
| 4 | After talking to her for a while I asked her if she was English . |
| 5 | We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday . |
| 6 | Thanks for listening to us on Talking Sport this afternoon , we 'll all be back again next Saturday , same time , same place . |
| 7 | The first five are in Latin , but Miller , realising his limitations , wrote in August 1763 , ‘ I have taken the liberty of writing to you in English , being informed that you can either read it yourself , or have some persons who can translate it for you ’ . |
| 8 | He had a way of listening to them as if their every word was a pearl of wisdom . |
| 9 | One of the best resources you can use is a good listener who will allow you to verbalise your doubts and fears aloud and who is capable of listening to you without pressing home their own agenda . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's time Dana took responsibility for her own life , instead of turning to you at every imagined crisis , ’ Myra said . |
| 11 | " We should always do all we can to improve local facilities and the ease of getting to them on foot or by bicycle , " said Sir George Young , Minister of Housing and Planning . |
| 12 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 13 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 14 | The track along Rhossili Down 's ridge top was rough and rocky , with a wild west sort of feel to it as a few hardy-looking cattle wandered about at will on the humped and pitted pastures to the right , which my map indicated are the remains of neolithic burial chambers . |
| 15 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 16 | if you 'd of gone to them for advice and say which is the better buy , which will was wash better and why , you know , I want I want |
| 17 | Being human the problems they present are unique , the ways of responding to them in finite . |
| 18 | Since he refuses to talk to me over the phone , he 'll have the pleasure of talking to me in person instead ! |
| 19 | My staff tell me that the elderly people have sort of taken to it like a duck to water almost . |
| 20 | Mimi and her red-haired friend called ‘ Tiger ’ who looked like Rita Hayworth , had developed the habit of referring to him as ‘ Monsieur le Professeur ’ , for they knew that Jeffrey 's thousand-franc notes came from Minton . |
| 21 | Such patterns of stress may be so much more damaging than the sum of their separate effects because their co-existence leads to a different attribution of meaning to them on the part of the child . |
| 22 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 23 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 24 | Your correspondent Mr. Pike wrote to me before writing to you about his diesel tacho . |
| 25 | Before you do this you 'll need to peruse the title ( see Chapter 5 ) to ensure that all easements , rights and liabilities on the title are disclosed to the buyer , and that any defects or difficulties are disclosed and the buyer shut off from objecting to them after exchange . |
| 26 | ‘ If you persist in clinging to me in that limpet-like way , Caroline , I will not answer for the consequences … ’ |
| 27 | However , his young family is very important to him , and he had reservations about being a selector because players might be inhibited from coming to him with their problems . |
| 28 | The pressures on the CNAA as colleges showed interest in coming to it for validation were of various kinds . |
| 29 | This means that removal of the event or object prevents the child from responding to it in a pleasant and rewarding way . |
| 30 | We er are fortunate enough in having a training scheme , in fact we were able to elect our first pensioner representative trustee two years ago and he is with us today , we 've just had another election and er two this time were elected , they will be trained , they had er Mr Hill had a two-day training by our actuaries er Watsons which are a big company , er but in talking to him about it he felt there was a lot to be said for having continued training , not just at the beginning of a two or three-year stint , but successively later . |