Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The knowledge of his affair still ate away at her , and it was knowing that she could never speak to him about the affair that hurt most . |
| 3 | Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well I do n't know because I , I did n't speak to her about the money , Sheila spoke to her , but she knows not to speak to me very much about money , see |
| 6 | I did n't speak to her for the rest of the day , of course , and this made her laugh , I do n't know why . |
| 7 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 8 | it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm |
| 9 | With me there , but he 'd be aboard the dumb hopper and I 'd be aboard the dredger and I remember one man , he turned round , his name was ex naval man he was and er I went round on the Sunday morning and he did n't speak to me on the Saturday . |
| 10 | And she said well I 'm not gon na speak to you for the rest of the week then . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | ‘ Do you know she would never let me speak to you on the phone ? |
| 13 | ‘ Jackie ca n't speak to anyone at the moment . |
| 14 | She was very shy , and did not often speak to anyone outside the family . |
| 15 | We must confirm to you at the time of booking that there is a free or reduced price holiday still available on the departure date you require . |
| 16 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 19 | Now I 'll put a line to do a transcription transcription goes in an appendix , put your transcription at the back of your work , in according to Appendix A and number the lines , so that you can refer to them in the body or wherever . |
| 20 | For brevity we can refer to it as the PCBCR . |
| 21 | But in 1348 the Earl of Arundel , who was Warenne 's sister 's husband and sole legitimate heir , petitioned the king to revoke this agreement , for it would ‘ disinherit the petitioner of his right to premises which should descend to him in the event of the death of the earl … without lawful heir . |
| 22 | I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time . |
| 23 | It is sometimes worth telling your audience at the beginning : ‘ Many questions may occur to you in the course of this report . |
| 24 | I said cos I shall phone the bank first thing Monday and I shall say right , he 's took the car so you can run to him for the money cos you 'll be getting none out of me . |
| 25 | Those social scientists who regard human actions as undetermined will look to them as the basis of counterfactual claims . |
| 26 | ‘ Right then , George , I 'll see to it after the holidays ! |
| 27 | And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds . |
| 28 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
| 29 | I attach a copy of a standard contract which I would be grateful if you could sign and return to me with the invoice for your fee . |
| 30 | As these appear as themes threaded through the discussion it may be useful to identify them here , although I shall return to them at the end of the chapter . |