Example sentences of "[vb base] respect to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stand up straight and show respect to your superiors — or you will feel the irons of An Dap about your ankles again ! " |
| 2 | In contrast , in many languages ( notably the S. E. Asian languages , including Korean , Japanese and Javanese ) it is possible to say some sentence glossing as " The soup is hot " and by the choice of a linguistic alternate ( e.g. for " soup " ) encode respect to the addressee without referring to him , in which case we have an addressee honorific system . |
| 3 | They pay respect to Bob , but to ignore ragga culture is to live in the past . |
| 4 | ‘ I pay respect to his brilliance and subtle astuteness but I am proud of what I did . |
| 5 | ONE OF Darlington 's busiest streets could come to a standstill this morning as taxi drivers pay respect to a young colleague who died suddenly . |