Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , soon if she has the courage , it will not matter , mt will be too late for anyone to protest , to come to her with sensible and sound advice . |
| 2 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 3 | ‘ So you would , for instance , have lunch with people in government departments to talk to them about particular policies . ’ |
| 4 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 5 | The telephone answering machine , and my clients ' willingness to talk to me at unusual hours of the day and night , kept me firmly in touch . |
| 6 | It was a great pleasure to talk to you at dear Crabb 's breakfast party . |
| 7 | ‘ I told you — I 've got to talk to you in private . |
| 8 | , The tax on polyisobutane — a " low-smoke " motorcycle lubricant — has been cut from 40 per cent to 5 per cent , to encourage riders to switch to it from conventional , dirtier oils . |
| 9 | Conversely the under-confident person may be hesitant to predict danger or to react to it with sufficient purpose or determination . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister 's formulation is that it is for the other 11 member states now to demonstrate to us in watertight treaty terms that the right of all member states to determine their own foreign policies is not being abandoned or abdicated . |
| 11 | But no parody was intended : when he got his bishopric , he would expect and require his subordinates to refer to him with similar flourishes . |
| 12 | It would be tedious and is not , I think , necessary to examine them all but I must seek to trace the development of the law through the main decisions and I intend to refer to them in chronological order . |
| 13 | The latter items , of course , like meanings , are subject to identity ; i.e. a non-meaning qua topic of discourse is necessarily such that it must be possible to refer to it on different occasions with the phrase " the same A " , where A is a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 14 | That you would continue to lie to me after every- thing — ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I will never , never abandon these bright hopes , ’ he used to say to me with shining eyes . |
| 16 | ‘ Would yer be wantin' to speak to 'im in private , Joe ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 18 | Police are anxious to eliminate the two men , who were seen near her home , from their inquiries , and would like to speak to them as potential witnesses . |
| 19 | I had to speak to you in private . ’ |