Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 2 | You want your parents to come to you first and they want you to come to see them . |
| 3 | ‘ T was to stop you becoming completely distraught , but I was afraid to look at you , afraid to come to you that night in case I saw fear or revulsion in your eyes . ’ |
| 4 | A person born severely disabled will need a great deal of help in overcoming the effects of the disability , but they will possibly be able to adjust to it better than the person who has enjoyed perfect health and led a full , normal life and is suddenly injured or crippled by disease . |
| 5 | In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms . |
| 6 | He was diligent in visiting the sick and distressed , supposing this to be ‘ the fittest time to discover to them those errors to which health and prosperity had blinded them ’ . |
| 7 | I do n't think we need to type an enquiry , I think that the people who realise that , the fact that you had got there is meant to indicate to you that name of the firm was Mallard , and therefore by using by using Mallards , sausage skins , they 're expecting you to use apostrophe s . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't have to listen to her any more , Gittel-plus-nine , ’ comes the breathless word from below the windows . |
| 9 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 10 | I think it takes you forty five minutes to listen to it all back again . |
| 11 | Yeah but you 're supposed to listen to it all off and see . |
| 12 | We would n't get the chance to listen to it all . |
| 13 | But I did not have time to talk to them all day ; I had my work to do . |
| 14 | ‘ No , certainly not , that 's why I went home , to talk to them both . ’ |
| 15 | He compounded this appalling error of judgement by standing up to applaud the winners , a misguided attempt at gallantry which resulted in me trying to run out of the stadium and refusing to talk to him all the way home . |
| 16 | What gives you the right to talk to me this way ? |
| 17 | He would have liked to talk to her more about her husband , but he could n't really bring himself , not yet , to ask any more questions . |
| 18 | He said I was to talk to you first . |
| 19 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 20 | But we 're going to talk to you first , and then you can start putting it behind you . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 22 | On the spur of the moment he said : ‘ I would like to talk to you first . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | When I decide to talk to you this way , my hours are spiked as if we really have a date planned . |
| 25 | If the money can clearly be proven to belong to you all , and to be your only means of support , it can not be let out of the family , casually , at the whim of one member . |
| 26 | There is said to be a Slovene General 4,000 Serbs 4,000 White Russians Probably the same as those which attempted to surrender to us two nights ago . |
| 27 | The term " Chetniks " could only have been used very loosely to apply to them all , although in Macmillan 's diary entry on his visit to Klagenfurt he refers to the use of the word " Chetniks " to describe " guerilla forces raised by the Germans from Slovenes and … |
| 28 | Alternatively , the vendor may require the purchaser to assign to it all rights against third parties but the purchaser will wish to restrict the vendor 's ability to commence proceeding against customers as this may affect the goodwill of the business ; ( h ) to limit some of the warranties to the best of the vendor 's knowledge , information and belief . |
| 29 | At the invitation of the Soviet government , and accompanied by no fewer than 25 Swedish journalists , members of Raul Wallenberg 's family and the society which bears his name will meet , during their week-long visit to Moscow , representatives of the KGB and the Foreign Ministry , who have promised to submit to them all available material . |
| 30 | ‘ Now is your opportunity to put to me any questions you have on the detailed implications for the people of the World of the Council 's decisions . ’ |