Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [modal v] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow we expect them to be happy to be kept in a place which is warm and dry , where they can eat to their heart 's content with their companions ; but no , they become quite upset . |
| 2 | As these appear as themes threaded through the discussion it may be useful to identify them here , although I shall return to them at the end of the chapter . |
| 3 | Yeah , no I could talk to her more than I could talk to him . |
| 4 | Many of the Dublin deaf have a smattering of BSL and can talk to me better than I can talk to them . |
| 5 | The woman who makes my gowns wishes to remain anonymous , so I 'll refer to her as ‘ M ’ . |
| 6 | I thrive on people telling me that so I can react to it . |
| 7 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 8 | She knew finally why she had stayed to suffer in this way , so she could explain to him and he would see . |
| 9 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 10 | She wanted only to be free of this , for the lake to clear , so she could retreat to her task . |
| 11 | It 's per foot then so you 'd have to what do you want ? |
| 12 | We 've set up some walk in sessions on Saturday between 9 and 1 and during the week , so you can talk to someone then . |
| 13 | She 's been in Paris on business for two days , but she 'll be back this evening , so you can speak to her about it . ’ |
| 14 | I said cos I shall phone the bank first thing Monday and I shall say right , he 's took the car so you can run to him for the money cos you 'll be getting none out of me . |
| 15 | Our heading has worked well for the second quarter of our route , so we 'll keep to it — but hold on , what 's this ? |
| 16 | You know , and if it is just the way it happens , particularly when you get a er , an envelope with says here you are , have free drinks , you know that some people , they do n't drink at all so they can go to somebody else and say here you are . |
| 17 | ( No sooner leaving me in the evening , than he must write to me . ) |
| 18 | There might be a yachtsman come along and he 'd want a mooring , so he 'd say to my father , can you fix us up yes , get an old bit of chain and put round , put some wooden wed wedges in tighten 'em up , up , that 's his , that 's his mooring , he 'd take it somewhere in the river , have it dumped , put a buoy on it , that was , that 's like his anchor . |
| 19 | No doubt he wanted his task over with , so he could return to his companions and his ale-cup in the soldiers ' quarters . |
| 20 | LUXURY TOUCH : Mr Mellor instructed electricians to carry out more than £1,500 of extra re-wiring so he could listen to his beloved Elgar on compact disc in the breakfast room . |
| 21 | But I 'm damned if I 'll bow to anyone . |
| 22 | Anyway , if I may return to our Treasurer 's anguished tale , matters became ever worse . |
| 23 | If I may return to my earlier metaphor — you will excuse my putting it so coarsely — they are like a man who will , at the slightest provocation , tear off his suit and his shirt and run about screaming . |
| 24 | I du n no if I would go to one now . |
| 25 | I wonder if I should talk to him about it ? |
| 26 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
| 27 | Will you ask Steven if I can talk to him please ? |
| 28 | ‘ And perhaps an occasional meal or two , if I can stretch to it . ’ |
| 29 | If I can come to you Andrew , you were in the Royal Highland Fl Fusiliers , what |
| 30 | sixty percent of customers buy first through re recommendations , for instance , right , if I can prove to you that sixty percent of customers buy , buy first through recommendations , right , would you not see that as a kind er reason why you should buy first as well ? |