Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 2 | I must speak to you about this . ’ |
| 3 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 5 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 6 | John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that . |
| 7 | He is a very complex man ; he thinks deeply about every role and you must talk to him in great detail . |
| 8 | The seller then becomes a trustee for the buyer and must account to him for any dividends he receives and vote in accordance with his instructions ( or appoint him as his proxy ) . |
| 9 | I think I should say to you at this point , that if you 're moving into these areas , you are moving into what I can , or , just totally contrary in fact to your policies , and directions , and er , not only that , I think we have difficulty sustaining . |
| 10 | take care love , and if I do n't see you , when I , I 'll speak to you before any way . |
| 11 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll talk to you for all the time we 're on this train . |
| 13 | I , I 'll talk to you about that later Emma actually . |
| 14 | I 'll talk to you about that |
| 15 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 16 | I 'll talk to you in half an hours time . |
| 17 | Durance appealed to Rain : ‘ Can you believe a woman I 'd taught everything could speak to me like that ? ’ |
| 18 | A serious accident could happen to you at any time today , tomorrow , next year . |
| 19 | If anyone has any experience of this , perhaps they could write to me with fullest details ( breed or type , number of dogs in household , when the guarding started etc ) . |
| 20 | I was shaking with embarrassment that he could talk to me in this way at all , as if he knew me , as if he had the right to question me . |
| 21 | They just chomped , and when they had finished , the podgy leader rose and quietly asked McGurk if there was somewhere they could talk to him in private . |
| 22 | He thought that he left the church unnoticed , but Isobel saw him as she stepped out of her pew , and , as far as anything could penetrate to her at such a time , she was touched by his solicitude . |
| 23 | ‘ I will never , never abandon these bright hopes , ’ he used to say to me with shining eyes . |
| 24 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
| 25 | I never imagined that the business side would appeal to you at all . |
| 26 | As this substance has properties akin to those of ferments I have called it a ‘ Lysozyme ’ , and shall refer to it by this name throughout the communication . |
| 27 | These I shall send to you for harsh criticism and very helpful suggestions re set . ’ |
| 28 | Glasgow Polytechnic has set up a graduates association and would like to her from any graduates or diplomates . |
| 29 | These questions are extremely difficult to answer from empirical data historically , but their importance means inevitably that I shall return to them in later chapters . |
| 30 | We shall return to it under another heading in 6 . |