Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 2 | it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm |
| 3 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 4 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 5 | They can literally come to you at the museum can they ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well , there was a little problem , but I do n't think I 'd better talk about it on the phone . ’ |
| 7 | It will have to be answered , so we had better talk about it in the shelter of our homes , and in the morning we can send and tell him what we think . ’ |
| 8 | In particular , he began to harp on the conservative themes that would provide the centrepiece of his campaigns for the governorship of California and which he would eventually carry with him into the White House . |
| 9 | Call the Coastguard for information if in doubt — they would rather speak to you on the phone than have to rescue you on the water ! |
| 10 | So when his interest in the affair peters out and he 'd rather not bump into you at the photocopier on a daily basis , it 's you who 'll be left with a P45 and a broken heart . |
| 11 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 12 | And Jesus does n't just chat to us for the sake of chatting to us , he , when he speaks to us his words have authority , they have input , they are vital and we must pay attention to them . |
| 13 | I did not speak to her during the journey , and when we arrived in Ruritania , I left the train at Zenda , a small town outside the capital . |
| 14 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 15 | With any luck they would not run across her during the day , although for press purposes both Major and Hurd would have to say how pleased they were to hear of her arrival . |
| 16 | Those who were waking said afterwards that it did not move towards them across the sky from any direction , but burst suddenly , directly above them , in a great whirlwind and a peal of thunder . |
| 17 | And as my few Acquaintance did not take to me upon the Account of Poetry , so they will scarcely fall off upon its ill Success |
| 18 | You 'll not hear from them about the confusion methods used to present figures on profits or unemployment . |
| 19 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 20 | She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker . |
| 21 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 22 | ‘ Then , if you think that I have overstated the reality , why do you not come with me into the slums of Whitechapel or Limehouse ? |
| 23 | ‘ But you will not come with me to the Delta ? ’ |
| 24 | We all know why we are there , But there is a constant control and you go to bed not knowing if they might not come for you in the night . |
| 25 | They did not pick on you for the hell of it . |
| 26 | I did not agree with it in the 1980s . |
| 27 | Now assign a system-wide logical name to the storage directory ; you will always refer to it by the logical name from within LIFESPAN . |
| 28 | ‘ Did she ever go with her to the bar ? ’ |
| 29 | How long can you still live with her in the same house while making up your mind ? |
| 30 | Did you ever talk to her in the way she wanted ? |