Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | With the latest ‘ S ’ series , and other new models either recently introduced or about to be , Mercedes aims to head off the challenge posed by a stream of new models from an arch-rival that has stuck to its last , BMW , and the looming threat posed by a fleet of new Japanese luxury models . |
| 7 | No , the police 'll want to talk to her first , wo n't they ? |
| 8 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 9 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Peacock 's strike condemned United to their first League defeat since March . |
| 12 | But we 're going to talk to you first , and then you can start putting it behind you . |
| 13 | On the spur of the moment he said : ‘ I would like to talk to you first . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | I started thinking : ‘ What 's going to happen to me next ? ’ ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I remember going to my first meeting , ’ he recalls . |
| 17 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 18 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 21 | By this stage the fielding captain has been compelled to resort to his second and third string bowlers , keeping his main strike men back to stem the batting slog over the last 10 overs . |
| 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 | For those who did stick to their first choice , the most important consideration seems to have been simply how much they wanted — or could afford — to pay back each month . |
| 25 | He did come to her last Friday , he gave her something for her mouth , you know her |
| 26 | Well , do n't come screaming to me next time one of the local hippies pinches a load of your acid off you . |
| 27 | The rain put paid to our next day 's match and consequently we did n't play until towards the end of the tour against the Jonor Rhinos , a team containing four Malaysian internationals , coached by a First Grade Australian ( who also played ) . |
| 28 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 29 | In the Marstons Welsh Counties Bowling League , Deganwy were sent crashing to their first defeat of the season , 7–3 fall at Esclusham , to have their lead cut at the top to 10 points . |
| 30 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |