Example sentences of "and [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 2 | When they arrived the hospital team changed tack and referred to them about all matters with regard to the girl 's care because they were the next of kin . |
| 3 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 4 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 5 | His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory . |
| 6 | I just thought I 'd come up and speak to you about that . |
| 7 | I just thought I 'd come up and speak to you about that . |
| 8 | The whole orderly structure of argument and assumption of course depended on slave-owners seeing the force of and benefit to them of these laws of development . |
| 9 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 10 | She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks . |
| 11 | It is essential , though , that the knowledge and skills people have are not taken from them , repackaged and sold to them at exorbitant prices . |
| 12 | We shall be concerned with the first category of nomic correlates , and refer to them as nomic correlates , but it is their nature rather than their name that is important . |
| 13 | Keep this manual by you when using LIFESPAN and refer to it for specific and detailed information on particular facilities |
| 14 | This is not as objectionable though as the host of descriptions which virtually conceal the identity of the product and refer to it by any of a number of lurid , dramatic or pseudo scientific titles which bear little if any relationship to function . |
| 15 | If we go to any local government official and talk to him about local government finance and how the council tax might work , he will say that it is nonsense and a case of trying to muddle through and paper over the cracks simply to make the package a little more presentable for electoral purposes . |
| 16 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 17 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 18 | He would soon argue for a Whitmanesque , democratic art , drawn from the people and distributed to them in popular editions , accessible to all and finding its way into ‘ workmen 's houses and farms ’ . |
| 19 | If you are happy with all the details , return the proof with full payment , less your deposit and your order will be completed and despatched to you within 28 days . |
| 20 | On the latter point the King felt the same confidence , although less reluctantly , and reacted to it with some lack of consideration by more or less commanding Baldwin not to leave the country for his annual expedition to Aix . |
| 21 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 22 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 23 | Letter writers frequently regarded the ZBS as representative of the new social order-. the new nation — and wrote to it with that in mind . |
| 24 | On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague . |
| 25 | On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague . |
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| 27 | Meanwhile , if you can sit and talk to me of other things , please stay . |
| 28 | The important thing about that Richard is you still have to sit down and talk to them about these businesses . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll come down and talk to you about that , ’ Donleavy said . |
| 30 | Listen I I 'm going to come back and talk to you in more lengths |