Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well listen , let me i let me introduce you to now who shall we pick , Tony , first of all what have you got to say to it , sitting |
| 2 | Now we we 'll have done some of them there and I do n't want you to look there okay I want you to just try it |
| 3 | The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently . |
| 4 | But I find it more useful actually to write out the things I want you to actually do . |
| 5 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 6 | But I want you to then engage me in something about my business . |
| 7 | I urge you to please support this motion . |
| 8 | I urge you to seriously consider this offer and to ensure that you reply before the closing date . |
| 9 | I 'm going to have some headed notepaper as soon as I can get the laser printer printing out things that I tell it to rather than printing out Courier Ten . |
| 10 | Last , but definitely not least , I ask you to carefully read the ‘ situation vacant ’ list for the committee . |
| 11 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 12 | But it 's there to there , to there , to there to there I took it to there did n't I ? |
| 13 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 14 | Er I wanted you to maybe describe some more of the responsibilities and duties you had in that job . |
| 15 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 16 | [ She goes on to note that ] … the needs of squeezing religions into manageable units can easily lead to unhelpful emphases on the superficial , the external and the exotic on the one hand , or the conservative , the established and the institutional in religious traditions on the other hand , at the expense of such less obvious and less accessible factors as the profound interiority of faith , the mundane ordinariness of discipleship , and the radical reforming zeal within traditions which challenges them to continually renew themselves . |
| 17 | He played a full season of grade cricket in Western Australia during our winter , without any recurrence of the back problems which limited him to under 40 overs in the Championship for us last summer . |
| 18 | Most dolphins and small whales travel in groups broader than they are long , which allows them to acoustically scan as large an area as possible . |
| 19 | the , the more you argue for this economy , and the more you argue no this is , this really is how the peasant felt and he that the peasant really erm did n't have any ideas of changing society at that of the landlord system the more I assume that one would support this kind of rent reduction , interest rate reduction campaign which allows you to slowly build up that mobilization which is necessary . |
| 20 | Flysheet : has an interesting feature which allows you to quickly attach the fly to the inner by means of quick release buckles — an efficient method . |
| 21 | If somebody told me to strictly control the car I would put both hands on the steering wheel but not necessarily both feet on the er brake pedal . |
| 22 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 23 | There are many ‘ folk ’ variants of this tune which adapt it to rather different musical traditions . |
| 24 | On the one hand I 'm gon na say you 've got the enabling factors , these are things which enable you to actually participate in taking a holiday overseas . |
| 25 | There will usually be an instruction which tells you to either steam , press , or cover with a damp cloth after blocking pieces so size . |
| 26 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 27 | Lovely path , climbed to the Col des Seigne , the French/Italian border — nothing to declare but nobody to declare it to anyway — Arrived at refuge at lunchtime — tried local speciality of Polenta , a bright orange ‘ bangers and mash ’ . |
| 28 | Which brings us to tonight 's big competition number two . |
| 29 | Which brings us to perhaps the most phenomenal yearly stats I have ever had the pleasure of analysing . |
| 30 | I do n't know , it was just a novelty , we 'd never ever , I remember an , an aunt of ours that lived in Plymouth near us , she had a house with an upstairs , but she had a downstairs toilet , so we never got to go upstairs you know it 's just one of those stupid things I suppose , I , I thought it was great and another attraction was I think one of the main reasons you got us to really want to come to Harlow was the fact that we 'd have a television |