Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all of them had crude magic swords , whose unsuppressed harmonics on the astral plane played hell with any delicate experiments in applied sorcery for miles around , but Rincewind did n't object to them on that score . |
| 2 | She does n't object to them on her feet |
| 3 | Do you think you could speak to them on my behalf ? ’ |
| 4 | With me there , but he 'd be aboard the dumb hopper and I 'd be aboard the dredger and I remember one man , he turned round , his name was ex naval man he was and er I went round on the Sunday morning and he did n't speak to me on the Saturday . |
| 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 | That 's why I did n't speak to you on Tuesday night . |
| 7 | Call the Coastguard for information if in doubt — they would rather speak to you on the phone than have to rescue you on the water ! |
| 8 | ‘ Do you know she would never let me speak to you on the phone ? |
| 9 | Mrs Bottomley told MPs in the Commons reply : ‘ The report will be published and the chairman of the RHA will report to me on its outcomes and will keep me informed of progress in improving service performance during the inquiry period and beyond . ’ |
| 10 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
| 11 | A lay assistant wrote that the Archbishop of Canterbury would attend to it on his return to London from Canterbury , but no further communication ever arrived . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So the experiences , although it 's got nothing to do with your product , is what is gon na actually happen to you on the telephone out there . |
| 14 | Okay , there was a survey carried out by British Telecom , and they asked some of their customers what were the most frustrating things that can happen to you on the telephone , and this was the answer , and some of the things that you 've come up with are here . |
| 15 | But I will ask dir , the director to re , respond to you on this Mr , er , er , did you want to also put this to vote ? |
| 16 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 17 | Fathers took pleasure and pride in their sons ' successes , but did not publicly defer to them on that account . |
| 18 | We can find justifying arguments for its ethical contents , even if we could not come to them on our own . |
| 19 | I 've got one on page eighty-one , but we 'll come to it on pollution control . |
| 20 | But , they did write to them on the counter and that that trouble , and she said that you know , that we can walk round there you know . |
| 21 | It was not part of my plan to make a detour via Chastlecombe , but since you wo n't talk to me on the phone I did n't have much choice . |
| 22 | He could always talk to them on their level without ever sounding patronising , as most adults tend to do . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ As a matter of interest , he specifically stressed that I must talk to you on an impersonal basis only . ’ |
| 24 | let me make you one up to objections , I 'm not prepared to give you a decision tonight , what would you say to them on that ? |
| 25 | ‘ Did you listen to me on the radio ? ’ he asked . |