Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 2 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 3 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 4 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 5 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 6 | I would like to talk to you for a minute or two . ‘ |
| 7 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 8 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
| 9 | But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university . |
| 10 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 11 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
| 12 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
| 13 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 14 | But no you go up town and get me this you see now she meant that sh sh you know no mampy pampying now , off you go yo you this is going to happen to you for a long time to come . |
| 15 | I beg you to allow me to speak to her for a few moments , and , if you would be so kind , also to yourself . |
| 16 | If you ignore the wisdom of your Higher Self , it might not bother to speak to you for a while . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In view of what happened on the rugby field last week the French are unlikely to speak to us for a decade or so . |