Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 2 | They traversed lush apricot orchards without comment ; they ignored a shepherd holding out a bowl of milk ; wordlessly they returned to the village where Miss Fergusson , her calculated civility now restored to her , asked the elder if lodgings could be supplied to them without delay . |
| 3 | The modern legal aid scheme , which provides financial assistance ( subject to eligibility ) in connection with proceedings in most of our civil courts , has come a long way since 1495 when statute provided for poor people , at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor , to sue without payment to the Crown , and to have lawyers assigned to them without fee . |
| 4 | You can talk easily and freely to them without thinking , now , should I have said that ? |
| 5 | If someone at work is not pulling their weight , we must be straightforward and talk to them without anger , remaining tolerant even if they are cynical . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ My parents seem fascinated by our relationship , they 're very nosy and curious but I would never talk to them about sex . |
| 8 | I talked to them about adult things : the Duke of Wellington , and the important things that he was doing in London . |
| 9 | How do people make sense of the variety of ideas coming to them about food ? |
| 10 | All comes from the Bible , which is offered to them as proof of the truth of what they are told , and gives them the impression that both extremes of behaviour are correct and righteous . |
| 11 | Two major problems had to be solved ; Bethe refers to them as Part I and Part 2 . |
| 12 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 13 | Y you refer to them as mile stone inspectors . |
| 14 | Like many such groups , they have acquired a patina of legend : during the nineteenth century there were those who referred to them as Druid stones , others who thought they were of Roman origin , and yet others who asserted they must be the gravestones of Danish invaders vanquished by Banquo and Macbeth . |
| 15 | The great majority of consumers get their fuel on credit , in that they pay monthly or quarterly in arrears , though of course the cost of this credit is not charged separately to them as interest . |
| 16 | Mr Ryan said : ‘ We hope the success of sports personalities like Chris Boardman will be our success , and that young people will look up to them as role models who are against drugs . ’ |
| 17 | According to this hypothesis , individuals ( and all other economic agents ) take all the information available to them into consideration in forming their inflationary expectations , not just past inflation rates . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Commons , on the other hand , had , since the Reform Act of 1832 , become progressively more representative of the people as a whole and was answerable to them at election . |
| 20 | Making no mention of sex , she asked the children to tell her about anything that had happened to them at school which they thought was unfair . |
| 21 | Whatever happens to them at school , children must not be bored . |
| 22 | So , while it is always worth seeking out the names of journalists who have a special interest in your subject , and if appropriate sending the releases to them at home as well as to their office , always be sure to send your releases to the newsdesk and perhaps to one or two others on the paper too if it is appropriate . |
| 23 | The governments of Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Uzbekistan and Ukraine had called on the Russian government on April 2 not to deregulate oil prices before Oct. 1 , fearing for their economies if the cheap fuel they received from Russia was instead sold to them at world prices . |
| 24 | We 've talked to them at length |
| 25 | Because of the risk of rejection by the ITVA , the vast majority of commercials are first shown to them at script stage , and the discussion and negotiation that goes on in the majority of cases takes place on scripts alone . |
| 26 | Write to them at PO Box 50 , D-8557 , Eggolsheim , Germany , for spares or info . |
| 27 | Write to them at PO Box 194 , London SE16 1QZ , enclosing three first-class stamps . |
| 28 | Marjorie turned to them with relief . |
| 29 | She is calm and ( usually ) sober ; Tod accepts these calls as one of his many duties , and settles down to them with resignation , with whisky glass , with patient perfecto . |
| 30 | It is the duty of the trustee to report to the committee all such matters as appear to him or as the committee have indicated to him to be of concern to them with respect to the administration of the estate ( r 6.152(1) ) . |