Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sit down and say to myself , how can I convert a mileage reading of one hundred and fifty thousand into only ten thousand without taking the speedometer to pieces ? |
| 2 | If I sit down and talk to I 've said this and I 'll say it I 've said it ad nauseam . |
| 3 | Ninagawa points out that his style , combining East and West , ritual and freedom , in many ways mirrors life in Japan : ‘ I get up and listen to Bach on my compact disc and have Japanese rice for breakfast . ’ |
| 4 | I go out and tend to the suffering populace and she sits at home and patronizes me . |
| 5 | ‘ Since I 've worked part time I 've also become a parent governor at the children 's school and most Fridays during term time I go in and listen to children reading . |
| 6 | I , I , would it be , would it be erm , wrong of me to ask you say , grant up to five hundred pounds , and I go in and talk to him , so we come back with a council , with a scheme . |
| 7 | The first S in SSC comes from the fact that its magnets rely on coils of superconducting wire , which work only when chilled to about -269C , 4C above absolute zero . |
| 8 | You get on and fly to somewhere that takes your fancy , the airline being quite willing to take the odd traveller with his rucsac . |
| 9 | The Japanese , champions of new product development , spend far less than the British on hiring market researchers , relying instead on information obtained by their own managers who get out and talk to dealers and customers . |
| 10 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad … |
| 11 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad . |
| 12 | Five minutes , before you start it though now that it might not apply to you , you might not have control over training , and perhaps down the left hand side you put well what methods do they use and you might put the other side then you go back and suggest to your boss will you alright . |
| 13 | You go home and go to sleep |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll tell you what to do , you go along and speak to Magistrate Peck . |
| 15 | Poor shacks housing local families are interspersed with grand villas and there are lots of half built homes scattered around owned by Anguillans who live abroad and return to the island when they have earned enough money to add the next storey . |
| 16 | I must say , that when you live here as opposed to visiting , the apparent lack of walks — and I agree that this is so — vanishes . |
| 17 | As we were hearing from Rupert just now , you know , you start if you travel to the States and spend two or three weeks wandering around there , you get an impression of the travel industry as a consumer , and you come back and go to a hotel here and you find that it seems a bit more expensive , or perhaps the meals are n't quite so good , or , as Rupert pointed out , the service is n't quite so good . |
| 18 | and junction nine is the one where you come off and go to Ernston that way |
| 19 | It 's easy to feel like Ziggy — of course it is — you play it on stage half the time and then you come home and have to be David Jones and I do n't have too much patience for that talk . |
| 20 | We know also that according to the Authority 's primary heads , PNP INSET made no impact on their practice in this area . |
| 21 | Instead , suggest that they sit quietly and listen to the discussion . |
| 22 | This is the impact that a speaker has when they stand up and speak to a group of people . |
| 23 | The other woman , whom she described as a man-hater , made her get up and come to the lavatories and once inside shouted vehemently , ‘ Do n't you ever do that again , if those men see you crying they 'll walk all over you ’ . |
| 24 | Er , quite often on real projects people produce these plans and they get out and work to that and never had to pause to think , this is a good one , this is a bad one . |
| 25 | They turn round and say to me , they never say Stoke on Trent , they turn round and say to me , what part of Yorkshire are you from ? |
| 26 | They turn round and say to me , they never say Stoke on Trent , they turn round and say to me , what part of Yorkshire are you from ? |
| 27 | Those who do not share the dewy youth and slenderness of Kate Moss will only look older and more swollen if they adopt the ‘ new ’ look ; but if they do n't and stick to the Lacroixs and the YSLs they 'll still look their age , so it 's a no-win situation for the power dressers . |
| 28 | There is need to emphasise the importance of encouraging people to re , receive some sort of training when they come forward and offer to be involved in the work of our under eights and young people . |
| 29 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 30 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |