Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 2 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 3 | You seem to be under the misapprehension that I intend making love to you . ’ |
| 4 | That I intend to make love to both of you ? ’ |
| 5 | Although I do admit to owning a bathrobe with my initials on it — and wearing green glasses for occasions when I want to draw attention to myself . |
| 6 | I must confess that I find this deeply attractive , and I want to draw attention to a few Bible passages where I think this idea is being worked out . |
| 7 | Here I want to draw attention to an article by Beverle Houston , ‘ Viewing television : the metapsychology of endless consumption ’ , which seems to me to be one of the few serious attempts to theorize television subjectivity , and one which deserves more attention . |
| 8 | But what I want to draw attention to here is the failure to understand that past social beliefs were formed within the context of false beliefs about the biological relation of woman and man . |
| 9 | Here , I have another purpose : I want to draw attention to the fact that different variables may be used by the community to mark functions of higher and lower levels of generality . |
| 10 | A second general erm point that I want to draw attention to erm it goes back again to erm Filmer Filmer you 'll recall had ruled out any meaningful distinction between the private and the public erm the domestic and the political . |
| 11 | Jeffery Griffin , the 53rd person executed in Texas since capital punishment was restored in 1982 , said : ‘ I want to say 'bye to my fiancee Regina in England . ’ |
| 12 | I want you , I want to make love to you again , ’ he said thickly , tugging her hair from its unruly topknot , so that it spread out on the pillows in a golden cloud , stroking slow , drugging caresses the length of her spread body . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to make love to you more than anything in the world , but you have doubts about me and I want everything crystal-clear between us , so ask your questions , Gemini girl . ’ |
| 14 | I want to make love to you for days and days , not to mention the nights , ’ he added with a wicked twinkle in his eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ Only when I want to make love to you , and that is n't what you 've got in mind right now , is it ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You see , I want to make love to you and be able to tell you I love you and hear you say you love me while it 's happening . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I want to make love to you till your body is drugged with sensations , every nerve-ending alive , limbs warm and aching , mouth swollen from my kisses and your eyes a deep , dark purple . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to make love to you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I want to make love to you forever , ’ he grated , moving his lips down to her throat . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to make love to you . |
| 22 | You must know how much I want to make love to you , Leonora , but not here , not like this . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to make love to you again ! ’ |
| 24 | I am extremely aware of the important and valuable role that nurses play in my constituency and I want to pay tribute to them . |
| 25 | I went out , I had n't even I 'd said hello to him , that was it . |
| 26 | I 'd made love to her class of Englishwoman before , and had no particular wish to renew the experience . |
| 27 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 28 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 29 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 30 | However , even if I 'd had access to the book at the time — he gave a signed copy to Mrs Goreng when he left and another to the American woman journalist , which I accounted a waste-it would not have been wise to argue . |