Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the prices of wireless guitar systems drop , more people are turning to them as an alternative to the shackles of the guitar lead . |
| 2 | This was sent to them with an information leaflet . |
| 3 | The company claims full rights over the recordings , passed on to them under an agreement signed by Lisa 's father and manager when she was 16 . |
| 4 | It is quite clear that it is too late to introduce new terms by reference to them on an invoice . |
| 5 | Under The National Investment Programme for Schools and Colleges , each school has to invest an imaginary £10,000 — left to them by an ex-pupil . |
| 6 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 7 | A ranked output IR system such as Okapi can also use several other kinds of knowledge about words to modify the way in which weights are assigned to them in an individual search . |
| 8 | The Flemyngs would be away , no doubt , ‘ at a banquet in Perth ’ , and they were ; a butler spoke to them from an upper window and asked them would they kindly leave a message so they marked the house with dirt and rotten potatoes while the servants rushed to bar the shutters over the windows . |
| 9 | Stupid though it might appear , she went upstairs and spoke to them from an upper window . |
| 10 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 11 | G Nat History & tc will also be of interest to me as an evidence that our intercourse has been productive of none but the most amicable feelings , that your [ two words illegible ] [ eyes the blessing of friends ] [ illegible ] |
| 12 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 13 | If a band 's young manager could come to me with an independently produced EP , with live circuit work pulling good crowds , success in merchandising T-shirts , and evidence of media interest , that would be a fantastic beginning . |
| 14 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 15 | As Koons shows the photos to me during an interview in his Greenwich Village apartment , I feel embarrassed for him . |
| 16 | My dear , do n't talk to me about an academic career for a woman . |
| 17 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 18 | ‘ She said a funny poem to me about an angel spitting . ’ |
| 19 | The Manor was one of the first houses my father ever pointed out to me in an effort to get me to appreciate architecture . |
| 20 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 21 | With the tenderest of smiles , he proferred my watch to me in an open palm . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |
| 23 | Later a sketch of a reusable coffin was sent to me by an interested correspondent . |
| 24 | I had , by this time , had a design for a coffin in veneered or melamine-coated chipboard sent to me by an interested listener . |
| 25 | Thus it was that , as I was wheeled perspiring into the editor 's office , that the first words ever spoken to me by an NME bigwig will remain with me for the rest of my life . |
| 26 | It was suggested to me by an Italian recipe for a sauce or relish called sapore de morone which appears in Epulario , first published in Venice in 1516 . |
| 27 | Sounds to me like an angry father , With a pistol in either hand , Looking for the man that screwed his daughter ( Rum ti-iddle-ey etc ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ wobbled the blue chins as he came looming up to me like an ocean liner in a fog . |
| 29 | They were very discreet but it looked to me like an assignation . ’ |
| 30 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |