Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the ear is not the only sensitive part of the human anatomy which Cloverleaf is designed to appeal to . |
| 2 | I 've been invited to go to Bhutan so I might go there . |
| 3 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 6 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 7 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 8 | They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since . |
| 9 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been meaning to speak to you , Rachaela , ’ she said , ‘ about the way you keep being late . |
| 13 | Nogai 's fighting with T'zin , and we 've been left to see to all the training and armouring , Targoutai and I. ’ |
| 14 | The trouble is , I 've been longing to go to the loo for the past hour , and I do n't know how long he 's going to be ! |
| 15 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |
| 16 | The latter question has arisen where young girls have been invited to submit to acts in order to train their voice or to improve their breathing — unbeknown to them , the act which they were permitting was sexual intercourse . |
| 17 | SCHOOLS around Petersfield have been invited to contribute to a mural competition to decorate the panels around the Tilmore Walk scheme . |
| 18 | Prior year comparative figures have been restated to conform to the current year 's presentation where appropriate . |
| 19 | Police have been wanting to speak to Mr Ashworth since 35-year-old Denise 's body was found in her flat above the Lion Tavern , Moorfields , on Thursday . |
| 20 | The bar 's management have been asked to report to a future meeting of the committee . |
| 21 | Following the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I have been asked to write to your about the hedges on your property on Trough Road opposite Wyresdale Crescent and also on Gubberford Lane between the river bridge and the first bend . |
| 22 | I have been asked to write to you on this matter because this hazard was drawn to your attention in my letter of 18th April 1991 following the Annual Parish Meeting . |
| 23 | I have been asked to write to you to express the grave concern of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council about the proposed sale of the piece of land adjacent to Wyresdale Crescent Scorton by Wyre Borough Council Land and Properties Sub-Committee . |
| 24 | I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton . |
| 25 | I have been asked to write to you about the street light outside Annfield on Station Lane Scorton . |
| 26 | The council agreed that it is a matter for concern that the rates have increased by so much and I have been asked to write to Wyre Borough Council about this and to ask if they would consider paying the whole of the rates for public halls in rural areas as I understand some District Councils do . |
| 27 | Playgroup mothers in Ness and Barra have been asked to contribute to a series of Gaelic broadcasts on the significance of playgroup experience for mothers and young children . |
| 28 | Dolphins have been trained to respond to human words , and in Holland a killer whale once spontaneously repeated a human sound . |
| 29 | All the Faculty 's students will , by the time they graduate , have been trained to bring to their work an awareness of informatics as a key force in social change and economic advance . |
| 30 | These semiconductors have been selected to respond to infrared radiation in four different wavebands , around 10 , 20 , 50 and 100 micrometres , a range of wavelengths that covers the maximum emission from bodies radiating at temperatures from 400 down to 40 K. ( ‘ Room temperature ’ is just below 300 K. ) The array will be used to pick up infrared sources within the telescope 's field of view of half a degree , that is , about the size of the Sun 's diameter as seen from Earth . |