Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to go on and talk to the audience before the show began : ‘ Like me , please like me , ’ she said to them , which is an approach not appreciated by British audiences . |
| 2 | They all have people who deal specifically with debt problems and will be happy to sit down and talk to you . |
| 3 | The important thing about that Richard is you still have to sit down and talk to them about these businesses . |
| 4 | There 's a thread running through them , but you have to sit down and listen to them before that sinks in . ’ |
| 5 | Due to popular demand he will be making a return appearance over this Friends of Thomas event and all children are welcome to go along and talk to this now famous locomotive . |
| 6 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |
| 7 | These light buyers , he suggested , were a market to concentrate on and convert to medium ( four to 9 books ) and heavy ( 10 plus ) book buyers . |
| 8 | And I 'd been wondering whether like I could perhaps persuade him or his boss , the professor to come along and talk to us , and let , some of their time is very full , and to them time is money . |
| 9 | And he will if you 'd like to come along and speak to him individually afterwards he will tell you something about that . |
| 10 | I see on the agenda this morning that an invitation has been extended for to come along and speak to us . |
| 11 | ‘ You goin' to come in and talk to me after you 've eaten ? ’ |
| 12 | Do you think you could get him to come in and talk to us ? ’ |
| 13 | I remember when I was about two-and-a-half or three , they used to come in and say to her , ‘ Mrs McGuigan , we do n't want to alarm you but your son is on top of that thirty-foot pole out there , ’ and my mother would say , ‘ Oh , that 's old hat , let's hear something new . ’ |
| 14 | And erm Claire spoke to him first of all , and we decided to pull over and talk to this chap cos he was going on and on , and I said to her |
| 15 | When we 're in Scotland , we regularly pay for Northern Ireland producers to come over and talk to us . |
| 16 | She was assisted to stand upright and walk to a chair . |
| 17 | interesting as well as a er edible lunch er we 're very pleased now to start away the afternoon session and I 'm particularly pleased to be able to introduce Patricia Routledge , she 's an actress with so many parts in so many media that I 'm not going to make any further introduction , but merely to ask her to come up and speak to us . |
| 18 | You did it on me , gettin' her to come up and talk to me , and do n't think I do n't know you 're laughin' about it . |
| 19 | ‘ Us is in 'ere , Sergeant Joe , ’ called Ella , ‘ Mum told us to come up and talk to yer lady friend . ’ |
| 20 | He went down extremely well last Sunday , for example , when many people gathered outside the party 's central committee building in an unauthorised meeting and called on him to come out and talk to them . |
| 21 | Listen I I 'm going to come back and talk to you in more lengths |
| 22 | If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price . |
| 23 | They also like activities as well reflectors , where they can stand back and watch and listen to others as well and sometimes within a group activity they actually like to pull back and listen to what others are saying . |
| 24 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't going to stand there and listen to that stuff , ’ explained Cooper graciously . |
| 26 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 27 | Or of , of mixed age group , let's put it like that , er , I only mention it because things are going to fall over and go to bed , erm , and everyone else stays up again . |
| 28 | Of course , I had to go over and see to them . ’ |
| 29 | Typically , now that he could leave when he pleased , he was tempted to remain longer and return to Paris in July . |
| 30 | One of the criticisms levelled at the board has been that it fails to consult properly or listen to objections to proposals . |