Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Do you want me to done to you ?
2 Er Our local reporter Caroline er will be contacting me with regard to any suggestions I may have on the editorial side .
3 Roger L'Estrange produced a pamphlet condemning the Whigs and Nonconformists as republicans , accusing them of wanting to " pursue their Revenge on us [ the Church of England ] " , and he asked " Whether the Clergy of the C. of E. are not concern 'd to be as diligent against Phanaticism now , as of late against Popery " .
4 I 've come to Saint Mary 's and I 've been here er just over a year now and erm Rosie collared me into speaking to you
5 And can you pardon me for coming to such a conclusion as that in the last line of my verses ?
6 Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective .
7 Judicial independence means that judges are not dependent on governments in ways which might influence them in coming to decisions in individual cases , though their promotion , like their appointment , is effectively in the hands of the Lord Chancellor with , nowadays , a measure of Prime Ministerial intervention .
8 And he 's got all , do n't think nothing of getting to any trouble with it , you know .
9 Pardon me for jumping to erroneous conclusions .
10 Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood .
11 These analytic shortfalls happen because , although associative initiatives address the ambiguities of subjective meanings , they often end up resolving them by referring to a concept of a unified subject .
12 TREE surgeon Robin Teasdill , 34 , stopped himself from bleeding to death by holding the main artery of his leg together for 15 minutes .
13 In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion .
14 Ravana captured Hanuman and set fire to his tail , but the monkey avenged himself by growing to the size of a giant and setting fire to the city .
15 Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations .
16 She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so .
17 I mean , I do n't swallow everything Morrissey says but I 'll always consider him worth listening to . ’
18 Andy remembers Paul Heaton ringing him to pester him into listening to The Housemartins ' demo , telling him , ‘ You 've got ta sign us , we 're brilliant . ’
19 They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ .
20 The option of settling a dispute rather than resolving it by going to trial can be described as a form of alternative dispute resolution , meaning methods of resolving a variety of disputes in ways alternative to court hearings .
21 Mervyn , representing Help the Aged , or at least representing myself in responding to Chris Heginbotham 's address , but er , here for Help the Aged today .
22 I was due to pay my second visit to my surgeon after my operation , and I had committed myself to returning to the Centre for a day visit at the end of October .
23 The Smiths seduce us into aspiring to the same heroic pitch of failure and exile .
24 Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time ,
25 ‘ It 's a sad death , but it will not prevent me from returning to London tomorrow . ’
26 Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people .
27 He conceded that users ' huge investments in mainframe applications prevented them from moving to smaller systems .
28 But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ?
29 ‘ It almost broke me to hear you accuse me of going to bed with you to get a story .
30 Thank you for drawing my attention to your proposed exhibition , I did indeed receive your telephone message , but other pressures prevented me from responding to it before you had also handed in your portfolio .
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