Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people probably think I take too long to decide such matters , but I can demonstrate to them that sometimes by giving people a reasonable length of time to adjust they come through with flying colours . |
| 2 | I , I 'll speak to them first and I 'll , I 'll er when , when , when you come back with some details I , I 'll let you know then . |
| 3 | I would n't speak to him all the evening , or look at the things he 'd bought , even though I could see one of them was a picture-frame . |
| 4 | ‘ Why did n't you speak to him this morning ? ’ |
| 5 | I saw her briefly , and , I did n't even speak to her other than to say hello . |
| 6 | ‘ She would n't speak to me last time I was in your home , ’ she complained . |
| 7 | You did not speak to me next morning , nor for the whole of the next day . |
| 8 | Taking responsibility would mean you would say , ‘ I felt upset when you did n't speak to me this morning . ’ |
| 9 | See now , there 's a lot of people who will speak to you friendly out on the street and there 's a lot more of them who 'll speak to you inside their own homes . |
| 10 | ‘ It does n't matter to me one way or the other . |
| 11 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't think it would matter to you any more than it did before . ’ |
| 13 | The directions that he may give must appear to him necessary ( but not reasonably necessary ) to prevent such disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation , and may specifically include instructions not to enter a particular area . |
| 14 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 15 | It is the fragmented state of these religions that is so tragic , for , whilst the need for a god would appear to he overwhelming , no convincing description of what ‘ god ’ is , or can be , is as yet available for all to accept . |
| 16 | ( Copied from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , A.D. 1808 ) : Sir , According to your request , I send you an account of the facts I have ascertained , respecting a canal I discovered in the year 1803 in the medulla spinalis of the horse , bullock , sheep , hog and dog : and should it appear to you deserving of being laid before the Royal Society , I shall feel myself particularly obliged by having so great an honour conferred upon me . |
| 17 | ‘ May I present to you those members of my family who are at present — ah — available , ’ said Reni . |
| 18 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's nothing Biff Thacker can do to me that will even touch what I get at home . ’ |
| 20 | So we 've got a pile of bones , a pile of building material , lumps of wood , what do you think we might do to them next ? |
| 21 | It did n't occur to me that criticism coming from an American of American business might be acceptable , but from someone like me , was much much harder to take . |
| 22 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 23 | It did not occur to them that , together , they could overpower the pair . |
| 24 | After you 'd been erm in daily discussions w with the management , when did it occur to you that things w just not gon na happen ? |
| 25 | If we ca n't answer them this very day , or in fact , if they do not occur to you this very day , but on subse quent occasions , of course , we will endeavour to answer the points a little later on . |
| 26 | When we create a new nation , however , we can not transfer to it this prescriptive authority which is the essence of our own state . |
| 27 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 28 | Well they wo n't give him it straight away , they 'll see to you first . |
| 29 | In time , she hoped that some theatrical Producer would see to it that Shakespearian plays were performed on the cliffs again , as they had been in the nineteen thirties . |
| 30 | If he steps out of line this time I 'll see to it that the dossier falls into the appropriate hands . ’ |