Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you expect me to agree to all that ? |
| 2 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 3 | ‘ I suggest you go to some holy place , preferably out of the City , and pray for forgiveness for the levity which started this business . ’ |
| 4 | Why d' you go to that blasted ship ? |
| 5 | Half a sovereign … what d' you say to that ? ’ |
| 6 | What d' you say to that as a triumphant finale to our partnership , old man ? ’ |
| 7 | I want you to move to another booth and call me in forty seconds on this number . |
| 8 | She said , I want you to listen to this song very carefully tonight . |
| 9 | Er , right , shh shh er right people , shh er you might find that once you start thinking about what you actually believe , it gets quite complicated I just want you to listen to this . |
| 10 | When you get home we want you to listen to this good . |
| 11 | Now , these are basic ideas , I want you to add to these ideas . |
| 12 | " In any art festival it is difficult to have fee expression by the artists and expect it to appeal to all the different social groups . " |
| 13 | Some traders expect it to fall to 3,100 within the next few weeks . |
| 14 | Some want the rotation requirement to apply to all companies , regardless of the problems that would cause for smaller practices ; others want it kept to listed and other public interest clients . |
| 15 | ‘ I think you want it to come to this , do n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Let me explain to all of you why this case is so different , ’ Tanner continued , hunching his huge shoulders , his big hands spread before him on the table . |
| 17 | Let me reply to one point at a time . |
| 18 | Oh well let me get to this |
| 19 | Let me allude to two of these issues . |
| 20 | NATHALIE PROVOST ( STUDENT ) : Let me say to all the young women of Quebec who want to study to be engineers , do n't give up ! |
| 21 | A special message goes to the key member of the team who missed photo day — transport manager We hope you return to good health soon ( They told you I was visiting then ! |
| 22 | Hope we go to fucking Cal er Boulogne ! |
| 23 | Let us announce to all that Welsh in this county lives and insists on achieving its proper place in the order of things . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Let us drink to that . ’ |
| 25 | However let us return to local elections . |
| 26 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 27 | But let us turn to specific details of the present government 's technological achievements . |
| 28 | So let us turn to two arguments challenging the validity of the idea in a way which makes even approximation to complete neutrality a chimerical notion . |
| 29 | Now let us turn to some samples to illustrate this , which we can try for ourselves . |
| 30 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |