Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to talk to you about that . ’ |
| 2 | The phone rings and a guy says , ‘ I want to talk to you about this . ’ |
| 3 | I says I want to listen to it , you know , I said I 've heard it with C D going through it with about four sets of speakers , but I want to listen to it through eight sets of speakers with cassette , a cassette that I like to make sure , to my type , he says I guarantee you now you will like it , he says you will like he says , he says we do a ten day er return thing , he says you buy something , he says you bring it back within ten days undamaged we 'll give you money back if you do n't like the quality of the sound , for whatever reason we 'll give you your money back . |
| 4 | Cos you know , obviously nobody wants to talk to you at three o'clock in the morning , fast asleep are n't they , not much fun is it ? |
| 5 | I want to speak to you about this street lighting . |
| 6 | Do you want to talk to me about that in the tutorial first or would that be ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He came to talk to me about that . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 12 | ‘ Would yer be wantin' to speak to 'im in private , Joe ? ’ |
| 13 | You may like to write to him for more details . |
| 14 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 15 | How had Keith dared to talk to her like that ? |
| 16 | I 'll feel good inside me 'cos she should n't dare to talk to me like that 'cos I 've never said to 'er noffink like that , you know . |
| 17 | ‘ Marjorie , I 've got to talk to you about this business , but I ca n't do it now . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you — I 've got to talk to you in private . |
| 19 | No , but if the hon. Gentleman has views that he would like to express to me on that closure , I should be delighted to hear from him . |
| 20 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 21 | Their aim is not so much to alleviate the horrors of war as to make war so horrific that potential aggressors will fear to resort to it at all . |
| 22 | If you have any comments you would like to make to me on this exercise I shall be most grateful to receive them . |
| 23 | Nobody had ever dared to speak to her like that before . |
| 24 | She would so like to speak to him of all that was inside her . |
| 25 | Police are anxious to eliminate the two men , who were seen near her home , from their inquiries , and would like to speak to them as potential witnesses . |
| 26 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 27 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 28 | She took a shaky step back , mentally berating herself for continuing to react to him in this inexplicable fashion . |
| 29 | Maggie spat , alarmed that the others might hear and wishing she did not have to speak to him at all . |
| 30 | ‘ If you continue to speak to me in that cold manner , ’ she answered , ‘ I shall say nothing at all . |