Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the spur of the moment he said : ‘ I would like to talk to you first . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 4 | I would have come to it all in due course , but it was good to be hastened . |
| 5 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't have to listen to her any more , Gittel-plus-nine , ’ comes the breathless word from below the windows . |
| 7 | Toomey also sees the decline in human terms : ‘ If you 'd have said to me 20 years ago that there would be no trading floor at the Stock Exchange , I would n't have believed it , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 9 | So much detail was not available to her then but she would have agreed to it all and later she would be able to describe more of the room , the contents of the cabinets , even the names of the people represented in the photographs on top of the piano ; she did not know then that this was the first of many visits to this room . |
| 10 | What a pity you could n't have talked to me four years ago , instead of simply walking out . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 12 | Even if the Bookman had wanted to answer the questions , he could n't have replied to them all so quickly . |
| 13 | If only he could have spoken to her one last time before he 'd been taken down . |
| 14 | I should have spoken to you this afternoon about the stock footage you asked me to follow up on . |
| 15 | The mess in the kitchen was typical of neither of them , and should have announced to them both the distress of the other . |
| 16 | However , what I can do is try to present to you some of the points of view we tried to draw together in that group because we did have someone who is a proprietor of a private home ; we had people from health ; we had people from social work ; we had people from housing ; we had people from different interest groups who approached the issue in different ways . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing can have happened to them this soon , ’ Joanna whispered , crossing herself . |
| 18 | I think I 'd talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'd give you their name and telephone number but I 'd have to speak to them first but I would n't just give out the name and telephone number on an ad hoc basis . |
| 19 | Well , do n't come screaming to me next time one of the local hippies pinches a load of your acid off you . |
| 20 | ‘ Actually , I think the Colonel will want to speak to you first . ’ |