Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So get talking to this girl you love , or else you may very well lose her . |
| 2 | I ca n't play that sort of trick on him — besides , I 'd only have to agree to another date . ’ |
| 3 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 4 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 5 | How did you feel about that yourself the , the way the machinery had changed er and your , your trade was obviously having to adapt to that ? |
| 6 | I doubt whether the legend of Dom Pérignon would necessarily have survived to this day but for the fact that the Abbey of Hautvillers , where he devoted his life to the perfection of wine , happened to be in Champagne . |
| 7 | There are many recorded instances of mass deaths of lemmings after a phase of population expansion , when they have apparently become subjected to some form of social stress that leads to their attempting to migrate across impassable barriers ( Elton , 1942 ) . |
| 8 | I am concerned that your correspondent rang Climbline at 7.15pm only to have to listen to that day 's forecast . |
| 9 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 10 | One thing just seemed to lead to another , and maybe 1 said more than I should have done . |
| 11 | With the utmost economy , of the kind we have already seen used to such effect in other Hebrew narratives , he reports the battle . |
| 12 | I 'm just going to talk to these girls . |
| 13 | I would desperately like to talk to any other mother who has had experience of this problem . |
| 14 | Although the shops are richly stocked compared to those of the Republic , Northern Ireland may bear a slight resemblance to a Communist country . |
| 15 | I have taken and passed the IAM test , and have finally put paid to any more irritating jokes about female from my husband and my four sons . |
| 16 | But the steely ‘ So fuck you , smarty-pants , ‘ cos he 's mine ’ look in Karen 's eye soon put paid to that idea . |
| 17 | Manufacturers can no longer charge according to some idea of ‘ value ’ but must compete on price and performance . |
| 18 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |
| 19 | There is , for example , the problem of matching finance in local currency , which governments are generally required to commit to each donor-assisted project . |
| 20 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 21 | She was still struggling to adjust to this love , this , the biggest happening of her life . |
| 22 | If I ever got talking to some man in a pub , it was more than his life was worth . |
| 23 | Those who practise witchcraft are , by definition , in the wrong : if they had right on their side they would hardly need to descend to such mean tricks as witchcraft . |
| 24 | On top of that , proportionately more has gone to those who have only their state pension by way of benefits . |
| 25 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 26 | Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules . |
| 27 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |
| 28 | It is less well known , probably , that Banbury has been a trade centre since Viking times , and the design of the town still bears witness to this . |
| 29 | The word ‘ moloch ’ is still used to refer to any supreme sacrifice and was , in fact , used to describe the Crucifixion of Jesus , God 's first-born son . |
| 30 | Looking at Beth now , the girl was made to wonder whether she had ever regretted coming to this house . |