Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 4 | ‘ This is one I used to try to read to him last year , but ’ — her voice sounded almost shy — ‘ I ai n't too hot a reader myself , as you can probably guess . |
| 5 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 6 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 7 | But also the database is passive , it never knows which client is going to communicate with it next . |
| 8 | But we 're going to talk to you first , and then you can start putting it behind you . |
| 9 | On the spur of the moment he said : ‘ I would like to talk to you first . ’ |
| 10 | We 've got to pay for them first . |
| 11 | Is that what Silvio was going to explain to me next , that you 'd agreed to pay the agency a commission but that you were going to give me — what ? |
| 12 | I started thinking : ‘ What 's going to happen to me next ? ’ ’ |
| 13 | Cos if he gets rid of them first then he does n't have to worry about those things until er later which sometimes does happen . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll have to go through me first , ’ warned fitzAlan , his voice low with menace . |
| 15 | She should have refused to go with him last night and insisted on staying in the car park . |
| 16 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 17 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 18 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 19 | ‘ I really came to see Sophie , but I could n't resist calling on you first . ’ |
| 20 | How could she have softened towards him last night ? she was thinking . |
| 21 | Young fish adapt better to new conditions and while you may not be able to start breeding from them next week they will often produce better results in the long term . |
| 22 | I think I 'd talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'd give you their name and telephone number but I 'd have to speak to them first but I would n't just give out the name and telephone number on an ad hoc basis . |
| 23 | But the young man managed to get to it first . |
| 24 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ We 'll get going on it first thing tomorrow . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , that 's why I want to get rid of it first . |
| 27 | Well , do n't come screaming to me next time one of the local hippies pinches a load of your acid off you . |
| 28 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 29 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 30 | But Francis told me that had happened to them last year . |