Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped to listen to him during rehearsal . |
| 2 | She once reported to Robert Landgrebe , marketing manager , in a voice of genuine shock that she had just been on an aeroplane with three accountants ‘ and do you know , they tried to talk to me about design ’ . |
| 3 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 4 | I tried to talk to him about it several times , but he would walk out on me . |
| 5 | They would n't give her your address , of course , but promised to refer to you through me . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes she tried talking to him about India , with a genuine impulse to do what she could . |
| 7 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 8 | When he again tried to speak to her at her friend 's home where she was staying , Mary called the police and they persuaded him to leave . |
| 9 | To her it was quite perfect , a light red costume made of silk , which seemed to cling to her like a second skin . |
| 10 | Here , an anonymous Company shrink checking out the efficiency of Spiderglass Southern , he was going to see the woman he 'd enslaved to him by playing God in her mind . |
| 11 | Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand . |
| 12 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 13 | He came to talk to me about that . |
| 14 | He looked for her and came to talk to her at every possible moment , at milking , butter-making , cheese-making , among chickens and among pigs . |
| 15 | She also came to talk to us at a recent training day about what the very elderly can and can not do . |
| 16 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 17 | ‘ Poor cow , ’ he 'd said to her about Eleanor , ‘ she thinks she 's going to get something out of me . |
| 18 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 19 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 20 | I began to dislike her ; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she 'd spoken to me like that . |
| 21 | No , I thought , I thought you meant you 'd spoken to him after my date . |
| 22 | Went to stay with them and Ruth came to read to you in the morning . |
| 23 | Oh no , Ann came to read to you in the mornings did n't she ? |
| 24 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 25 | If every minion came running to me with his little scrap of information , I would never get any work done . ’ |
| 26 | For the simple reason that we have no debt to finance , we have no debts to finance , and if we 'd listened to you over the years , on our sur surplus land and property . |
| 27 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 28 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 29 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 30 | To show this was not true , I began to talk to her in an animated way , and she was attentive , encouraging me with questions . |