Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |
| 32 | But he , he said to the insurance people no I do n't want you just to keep on paying the bills . |
| 33 | Veronica came up did n't she yesterday to see where her er has Sally got her stuff please . |
| 34 | It could have been her last name , or a state she like to exist in but I think it was a number involved . |
| 35 | You think she like to live here ? |
| 36 | Questions with a high and specific information content give you more to go on . |
| 37 | ( You can speculate about Keith yourselves , and — to balance the examples — I leave you also to consider why , in a recent US survey , a sample of American men overwhelmingly judged the sexiest female name to be Christine . ) |
| 38 | I am sure I can rely on you both to carry out my instructions — my wishes . |
| 39 | ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me . |
| 40 | Well leave you now to go home , or stay at home and sort that all out for yourself and try and work out how it affects you . |
| 41 | ‘ I did n't bring you here to open up all the old wounds again , ’ he growled at last . |
| 42 | Erm , can I ask you please to point out to anybody who is n't here , which I guess is quite a number of people , there 's probably six or seven people who 're not here , er that the test is in fact next Tuesday , that 's February the twenty second , is it ? |
| 43 | We want you there to check out what the hell has happened . |
| 44 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 45 | ‘ I told you never to come here ! ’ |
| 46 | To answer this correctly you need to analyse the tasks that face you currently to decide how many of them can be handed on immediately , or later with careful preparation . |
| 47 | However , certain topics cut across these various disciplines and frequently it is necessary to cover them extensively to provide even an appreciation of the topic . |
| 48 | Seconds later , he asked me urgently to bring over a large roll of cotton-wool . |
| 49 | I would like them both to go back from the month of June . |
| 50 | Are we simply to chuck out these extra six constituencies and say no to the French , we 're not going to agree to extra silly expenditure or are we in fact going to cave in as we 've done so often . |
| 51 | Are we then to add only that what is physical must also be observable , that it must possess some secondary quality — colour , hardness or solidity , texture , smell , taste To do so would exclude many very small particles whose existence is well established in physics , and also physical forces , such as magnetism . |
| 52 | Nobody has told me before to pack up , why are you bringing it up today ? ’ |
| 53 | As I hinted before , the resolubility of these colours allowed me really to play about with colour and experiment . |
| 54 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 55 | The bedroom doors of Darlington Hall are of a certain thickness and I could by no means hear complete exchanges ; consequently , it is hard for me now to recall precisely what I overheard , just as , indeed , it was for me later that same evening when I reported to his lordship on the matter . |
| 56 | Typically of experienced teachers recognising the potential weakness of the whole venture ( it will in fact only succeed if the pupils are determined to make it succeed — not something one can often rely on ! ) , precautions were adopted such as warning them beforehand to mark out the route they take , and ( the final card up teacher 's sleeve as pupils start to get killed all over the place ) to come in as narrator saying , ‘ Suddenly , for no apparent reason , the danger passed and the members returned to safety ’ ! |
| 57 | While many students subsequently enter the teaching profession or work as professional musicians , they find that the study of music as a discipline trains them intellectually to work successfully in other professions , for example , business , personnel management , arts administration , the civil service , computing , the careers service , librarianship and journalism . |
| 58 | The Trade Union Act of 1834 allowed them simply to bargain peacefully . ’ |
| 59 | They only to give well it |
| 60 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |