Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 7 | Not only her own people but other people used to come to her for advice … |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I was concentrating too hard to feel elated or amazed that I had actually trained this wild creature to come to me at will . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents . |
| 16 | I stopped to listen to him during rehearsal . |
| 17 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 18 | And sometimes , leaving his office , he would close his door in such a way that there seemed to be something or someone intriguing behind it , as Richard Miller noticed when he went to talk to him about banking for the contras ; it was deliberately stage-like , impressive . |
| 19 | The assistant headteacher agreed to see him every day , on an informal basis , to get a chance to talk to him about home , family and school and to offer support where possible . |
| 20 | You will want to talk to him about home , and he has things to ask you . |
| 21 | Anne claimed Joe to talk to him about the books she had read and all that had happened to her since he went away , and Terry and Stephen wanted to talk to him about football and their latest craze , greyhound racing . |
| 22 | I mean , please Quincx , I want to talk to him in person . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 25 | Well I thought you were going to talk to me about Christmas presents . |
| 26 | ‘ I could see the alcohol taking effect ; he became so excited that he began to talk to me in Italian . |
| 27 | He used to talk to her in English with an Italian accent . |
| 28 | Usually he never bothered to talk to her in bed , but this was what real lovers did , told each other their fears and worries , confided in each other , helped each other . |
| 29 | ‘ The answer that we received was that to talk to us on film would be voyeurism at its worst . |
| 30 | ‘ The answer that we received was that to talk to us on film would be voyeurism at its worst . |