Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a flight to the east , your body is behind the new local time and to adjust to it you will have to advance your body clock . |
| 2 | Can I then introduce to you I 'll introduce the speaker in a few moments , quite formally , but Michael who 's the guest of Roy . |
| 3 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 4 | ‘ It just occurred to me you might like to … ’ ; |
| 5 | ‘ It never occurred to me you 'd want anything else — or at least , ’ she amended with a sheepish smile , ‘ I never dared hope you would want anything else . |
| 6 | It never occurred to me you could think that . |
| 7 | All , all family , you know , before like , we felt whatever happens to her we 'll have it . |
| 8 | ‘ My life 's insured by the department , ’ he explains to Felicity , ‘ so that if anything happens to me you 'd get both a lump sum and a regular income . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Moreton , Sally is an old friend of mine and if I can not speak to her I would like to leave a message . ’ |
| 10 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 11 | As He says to me you can choose yir freends but you canny choose yir flock ! |
| 12 | If John 's moral life came to me I would say : |
| 13 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 14 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 15 | One man in particular er again I wo n't mention his name but anybody that went to Road School 'll know who I , I mean when I say that if you did anything wrong he 'd call you out and ask you something and if you , if you like pupils used to be a bit shy and , and not speak to him he 'd slap you across the face . |
| 16 | Well that have actually been told that if anything comes in providing This is what I ca n't get through We 've said to them you can bring your radios in but give to Brian first . |
| 17 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , why do n't you use the money that Geoffrey and Jean gave you with al buy something and then you can write to them and tell them what you 've cos it 's a fortnight since your birthday , it 's time you 're writing to them they 'll think you 're a most ungrateful child if you do n't write and say thank you . |
| 18 | It seemed to me you could have no other name . |
| 19 | It seemed to her she must have on every piece of jewellery the family owned . |
| 20 | ‘ What I mean is — she explained your circumstances quite openly and asked that if anything happened to her I would keep an eye on your affairs . ’ |
| 21 | Er , it 's certainly what happened to me I must admit in fact it 's certainly been the pattern of my life and er I 'm not surprised what thought , Freud thought was a kind of typical er typical pattern . |
| 22 | Mr Gillis continued writing and when Alec turned to me I could see the strain on his face . |
| 23 | The nice thing about Matilda was that if you had met her casually and talked to her you would have thought she was a perfectly normal five-and-a-half-year-old child . |
| 24 | I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’ |
| 25 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 26 | I can not find the page now through all that excitement here when I get to it I 'll get to it some time page twenty five I 'll be alright . |
| 27 | Say , everybody was saying to me we could break in there . |
| 28 | They went out from us but they did not really belong to us , for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us but their going showed that none of them belong to us . |
| 29 | The clue is , of course , that if Archer 's coat was powder-stained his killer must have been someone known to him who could get up that close in the deserted night street where he met his end . |
| 30 | Erm , I I just hoped to dictate to you which would cover the changes of the research approval form |