Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 2 | Yeah , so she 's going to come to me on the bus on the twenty third . |
| 3 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
| 4 | Well waiting to talk to us on the telephone now is Rupert Lancaster , who 's the managing director of Foders U K. |
| 5 | Well , well , I wonder what 's going to happen to me in a place like this … ’ |
| 6 | I would rather see people that are going to start work , even if it is only for a year , at the same time where they are working that year that somebody take an interest in what 's going to happen to them at the end of that year . |
| 7 | But no you go up town and get me this you see now she meant that sh sh you know no mampy pampying now , off you go yo you this is going to happen to you for a long time to come . |
| 8 | Once or twice , at mealtimes , I thought Quigley was going to speak to me about the matter . |
| 9 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 10 | Our experts will be waiting to speak to you at the venues on the days shown above . |
| 11 | Did the Prime Minister feel no sense of humiliation at having to meet the other 11 Heads of Government and having to explain to them in the most public way why the British economy was so uniquely vulnerable and fragile that we alone were unable to provide the basic minimum provisions of the social charter ? |
| 12 | After a lot of pestering I was allowed to speak to two friends who had come to court with me , and I was appalled by having to speak to them through a glass and metal grille thing . |
| 13 | Chair , could I make , could I suggest maybe that in future when you ask organisations you make it harder for getting a license for street collection , that you tell them that you 'll want to know exactly the proportions , but I mean put it back on to them , rather than be you having to bother to it in the future . |
| 14 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 15 | We are trying to get to them with the message that smoking kills unborn and newborn babies . |
| 16 | She was hoping to speak to you before the wedding . ’ |
| 17 | Now , just when she was bursting to talk to him about the job , he was going to be less than forthcoming . |