Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisms can only adapt to their presently existing environments ; they can not predict future ones . |
| 2 | She 's only come to mine once . |
| 3 | This merely adds to their already strong sense of the senseless . |
| 4 | The Council 's role does not seem to have changed drastically under the Yorkists , although its activities are only revealed to us obliquely in the records . |
| 5 | The room suddenly seemed to him both overcrowded and empty . |
| 6 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
| 7 | Well you better see to it then . |
| 8 | Rosamond 's novel [ she called her ‘ Rosamond ’ , but was only introduced to her once at a party ] . |
| 9 | When Pat Samson , the model for ‘ Girl with a Squint ’ had her squint corrected , the artist is reported as having ‘ joked ’ : ‘ Oh hell , he wo n't be much use to me now ’ . |
| 10 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 11 | ‘ But one way and another I 've been quite enough trouble to you already . |
| 12 | There was a man in a dark overcoat and gloves standing by , apparently talking to somebody just out of sight . |
| 13 | ‘ Er , ’ came Angalo 's hugely amplified voice , apparently talking to someone else . |
| 14 | Be careful , señorita , to catch that love when it comes , because it may only come to you once . ’ |
| 15 | we 've , we 've only seen her that , we 've only spoke to her once |
| 16 | I was only talking to her yesterday , I thought you 'd come in and asked her ? |
| 17 | ‘ The boys at Langley do n't do much talking to us just at the moment . |
| 18 | All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now . |
| 19 | but it would 've normally come to us here you see at |
| 20 | She said to me just say to him like I do enough Vaughany , do n't want to hear any more . |
| 21 | The thing is I mean if you turn round and just say to them well they 're messing about with all the hours we 've put it down to the erm |
| 22 | Well , they can come in to the church , as many of them do , erm and I just say to them well , you know , do you respect this place and fine , it 's a place where we do n't chuck anybody out who comes into church for all sorts of reasons during the day when the church is open , you know , people come in , and there are many people like the ones we 've been talking about , who are in desperate need , and we just ask them to respect certain fairly mild rules they can always go out in the churchyard and smoke , but in the building itself we say no smoking and no drinking . |
| 23 | I just say to them now |
| 24 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 25 | Just want to I just want a that will do me |
| 26 | Dexter decided that although he understood her predicament , he no longer warmed to her either . |
| 27 | Just listen to what yesterday 's report , by the Government 's new National Curriculum Council and blessed by Education Secretary John Patten , had to say about that one . |
| 28 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 29 | Ranteallo had already confessed to us that much of the problem of fixing a date for the rites had also been the laborious process of raising money from the banks in Makassar . |
| 30 | Because this is what he always felt after his father died — that if he could just speak to him now , he could really open his heart and say everything , without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords . |