Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [to-vb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We only want to talk to you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We only want to talk to you . |
| 3 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 4 | That announcement to W. could , in my judgment , only serve to underline to her the extent to which she is in control . |
| 5 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 6 | ‘ I just want to talk to you about him . |
| 7 | I just want to talk to you , honey , and I ca n't . |
| 8 | So you do n't have to touch it , you just have to talk to me and just leave it sitting there . |
| 9 | I cried over that old letter , that fragment of academe , because it said in part what I had wanted , then wanted and still want to say to you and only to you , and because it expressed in part some of the physical ache and fear and disappointment I had felt , then felt and still ( in an increased measure ) feel . |
| 10 | I mean , that may have been the right impression , and I do n't want to force you to say more than you want to , or really anything , but I 'd like to know if you still want to write to me , possibly just about books , or if you wanted to — |
| 11 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 12 | I urgently need to talk to you to ensure that you are happy with this proposal . |
| 13 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 14 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 15 | I really need to speak to her . |
| 16 | Which brings me to what I really have to say to you |
| 17 | Would any Goran fans out there like to write to me . |
| 18 | I never want to talk to you again about anything else but work . ’ |
| 19 | And he gets the spade and hits her on the head with it and he goes , I never want to talk to you again and he kicks her in the head . |
| 20 | You 're having some row between yourselves and it 's nothing to do with me and you never want to listen to me and — ’ |
| 21 | If you get somebody putting six hundred pounds for holidays , I 'll be thinking mhm you know , they 're not going to be able to do a lot on six hundred pounds a year , but when I actually get to talk to them I find they 've got a caravan , and a friend who 's got a site in North er er in North Yorkshire . |