Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you make love to me I 'll have something to look back on with pleasure and gratitude for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 32 | He looked at his watch and said , " If it was up to me I would leave in ten minutes . " |
| 33 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |
| 34 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
| 35 | My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty . |
| 36 | ‘ Still , if it had happened to me I would have been angry . ’ |
| 37 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 38 | If John 's moral life came to me I would say : |
| 39 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 40 | left to me I 'd take all curtains down |
| 41 | ‘ As the boat you were using for your ridiculous smuggling attempt belongs to me I should have thought it was obvious . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Brother , if you will send it to me I will make lots of drawings for you of the Heike , and whatever you want … . |
| 43 | I can not stand it any longer , if someone does not come to me I will give up and be miserable for ever and perhaps go home of my own accord , write or wire to Uncle C. and say you are coming at once pleas darling , and come on Saturday or I will give up altogether and always wretched . |
| 44 | Er , it 's certainly what happened to me I must admit in fact it 's certainly been the pattern of my life and er I 'm not surprised what thought , Freud thought was a kind of typical er typical pattern . |
| 45 | Mr Gillis continued writing and when Alec turned to me I could see the strain on his face . |
| 46 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
| 47 | That came as a great surprise to me I can tell you . |
| 48 | As the girl dances close to me I can smell her perfume and all that has gone before is completely forgotten ; the slit trenches , the mosquitoes , the wounded and my dead comrades . |
| 49 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 50 | Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked . |
| 51 | And he did say to me he would like to have seen her again at and monitor this , this |
| 52 | If he wants to explain things to me he 'll have to come there to find me . |
| 53 | ‘ If you keep talking to me he might think we have n't seen him , ’ Benny hissed out of the corner of her mouth . |
| 54 | so I thought right , she said to me he 'd want a bottle , so come like ten past eleven , he 's like whinging , he 's drunk all his milk , then went up and come down and eat all his dinner and his pudding |
| 55 | He shows nothing that suggests to me he should wear a Liverpool shirt . |
| 56 | Well you said to me he could have it he said I 'll have tonight . |
| 57 | talking about I mean us six er pe peasants we 've got a landlord , you know , oh shall we go and kill him , he , he 's got all the authority , he 's got armed militia , the works , now to me he could have |
| 58 | ‘ It just occurred to me you might like to … ’ ; |
| 59 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 60 | ‘ Well , it seems to me you 'll have to talk it over with her , ’ she said , determined to be non-partisan . |