Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people can not think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening . |
| 2 | That way , I would n't have to see you or speak to you at all ! ’ |
| 3 | Conversely the under-confident person may be hesitant to predict danger or to react to it with sufficient purpose or determination . |
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| 5 | For more information call Mark Hopes on or write to him at British Coal Marketing Department , Hobart House , Grosvenor Place , London SW1X 7AE . |
| 6 | You can phone Derek at 535174 or write to him at 9 O'Donoghue Street , Inchicore , Dublin 8 . |
| 7 | In the end , after much hesitation — all Agnese 's stuff looked so expensive ! — Ronni selected a blue silk jersey dress the colour of her eyes that clung to her in all the right places and looked sensational , and a pair of matching blue sandals that , miraculously , fitted . |
| 8 | He reads the texts that remain to us from sixth century Greece as evidence of ‘ a more thoroughgoing individual challenge to the orthodox cultural tradition … than occurred elsewhere ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 9 | Wexford took in the looks that passed to her from each of her visitors , her mother 's merely solicitous , Pertwee 's indicative of deep affection , Bardsley 's shifty , while the thwarted bride leaned forward , stuck out her chin and nodded her utter committed partisanship . |
| 10 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 11 | Look for the textbooks that speak to you in clear terms . |
| 12 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 13 | No one could have been better suited for the role , nor taken to it with more enthusiasm . |
| 14 | To tap that requires roots that probe deep between the particles of the soil and can absorb the film of water that clings to them in all except the most arid environments . |
| 15 | But it can be any image that comes to me at second-hand , whether it be postcard , film still , TV or whatever . |
| 16 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 17 | When they arrived the hospital team changed tack and referred to them about all matters with regard to the girl 's care because they were the next of kin . |
| 18 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 19 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 20 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 21 | His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory . |
| 22 | I just thought I 'd come up and speak to you about that . |
| 23 | I just thought I 'd come up and speak to you about that . |
| 24 | The whole orderly structure of argument and assumption of course depended on slave-owners seeing the force of and benefit to them of these laws of development . |
| 25 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 26 | She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks . |
| 27 | It is essential , though , that the knowledge and skills people have are not taken from them , repackaged and sold to them at exorbitant prices . |
| 28 | We shall be concerned with the first category of nomic correlates , and refer to them as nomic correlates , but it is their nature rather than their name that is important . |
| 29 | Keep this manual by you when using LIFESPAN and refer to it for specific and detailed information on particular facilities |
| 30 | This is not as objectionable though as the host of descriptions which virtually conceal the identity of the product and refer to it by any of a number of lurid , dramatic or pseudo scientific titles which bear little if any relationship to function . |