Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , if she 's got a young family , I mean , nine times out of ten it 's her that 's got to watch them rather than saying to the husband , oh I 'm off to play football dear ! |
| 2 | If you are unable to obtain any Amber product in your area or would like tickets for the ‘ open day ’ , contact them on or write to , . |
| 3 | He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea . |
| 4 | Moreover , I have preferences regarding the happiness of others which are not concerned with them merely as means to certain feelings for myself . |
| 5 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 6 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 7 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 8 | Dorcas called them over and pointed to the tank above them . |
| 9 | He regards them not as belonging to a particular branch , but to the Area ; hence , ‘ transfer ’ has been erased from the Dictionary . |
| 10 | Then he 'd got some blankets out of the chests under the bunks at the end of the boat , turned off the torch he 'd found in another cupboard , stretched himself out and gone to sleep . |
| 11 | We shall not linger over what we mean by choice , which even when narrowed to considered choice is a concept with blurred edges . |
| 12 | So again , the information as to who was the occupier was obtained by somebody else and given to you verbally . |
| 13 | Oh , she 'll find somebody else and revert to her old self . ’ |
| 14 | He did n't like to think he was the kind of person who took things from strangers in pubs and then passed them off as presents to girls he was supposed to love . |
| 15 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You told me once that going to a Workhouse was simply exchanging one prison for another . |
| 17 | That would have helped me more than going to prison and mixing with all them people and just getting depressed and fed up and full of hatred . |
| 18 | In particular , a firm undertaking FDI needs a firm-specific advantage ( e.g. a brand name of a patent ) , which it prefers to exploit itself rather than license to an existing domestic producer . |
| 19 | The band finally reached the end of their last number and she all but leapt to her feet , switching on her brightest , falsest smile as she looked down at him . |
| 20 | Driving you home or driving to wherever you want to go to in style on Trent F M , more updates later . |
| 21 | I mean for him to ring you back and speak to you , i i he , he 's been concerned about it as well . |
| 22 | Have you had any , anybody else phone them up or written to them ? |
| 23 | Molly pointed to the bright bunch on the scrubbed table and Giovanna gathered them up and strode to a hook on the dresser where they dangled with all their labels . |
| 24 | He screwed them up and sank to the floor . |
| 25 | Harvey helped me up and pointed to a concrete runway just below us . |
| 26 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 27 | After they had eaten and sunbathed a little , they cleared everything away and moved to another hedge to pick more berries . |
| 28 | Have you ever picked one up and said to yourself , ‘ That 's wrong … |
| 29 | Knock one out and go to sleep , it 's the easiest way , in n it ? |
| 30 | They stared at each other for a moment in tense silence ; then gripping the aide of the bedclothes , he swung them upwards and exposed to his amazed gaze her grey outdoor coat . |