Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 2 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 3 | And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner . |
| 4 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 5 | Erm the talks erm Gillian Thornton is gon na speak to us on the 23rd of February just to remind you and I 've actually prepared some notes on play writing which we can fit in some time during this sort of session . |
| 6 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
| 7 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
| 8 | His opinion of her work , like his opinion of her as a person , really should n't matter to her in the slightest . |
| 9 | I certainly would n't refer to them as a peripheral area , that was |
| 10 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
| 11 | Boltzmann showed how the function — was related to the gradient of torque in an experiment on the twisting of a wire ( we would refer to it as a time-dependent shear modulus ) and gave the results of such an experiment . |
| 12 | We label this line AD and shall refer to it as the aggregate demand curve . |
| 13 | We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming . |
| 14 | Now assign a system-wide logical name to the storage directory ; you will always refer to it by the logical name from within LIFESPAN . |
| 15 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
| 16 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |
| 17 | Together you can return to us from the frozen forbidden place . |
| 18 | Whilst realising some of the questions do not apply to you as a potential member , it would be interesting if you could please complete , insofar as practical , the enclosed questionnaire and return it to me at |
| 19 | If a detainee tells a FME that he wishes to give him confidential information , he is warned by the doctor that confidentiality does not apply to anything against the public interest , for it would be improper for the doctor to collude in deception . |
| 20 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 21 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 22 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 23 | Nothing much could happen to her on a sunny September afternoon between here and the launderette , and Mrs Barakhda who ran it was a friend of hers , or the nearest Lili had to a friend . |
| 24 | ‘ Patsy was told by both fortune tellers that something would happen to her before the New Year — that an attempt would be made on her life , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Some amazing events may happen to you during the coming year — events which confirm or test your faith . |
| 26 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 27 | The criminal law can respond to it as a tolerable and justifiable exception to basic criminal law rules developed long before ventilators ever existed . |
| 28 | situational humour , ie funny within the context of the situation people are in at the time so that people can relate to it through a common , shared experience |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |