Example sentences of "to [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 So anyway I went to Index cos I want I want and a watch I 'm looking for a watch cos , and I thought oh aye I come to rings , I thought well I owe her a ring so I thought oh better half eternity ring they 're cheap anyway .
2 A concept is not just a sticky label , so to speak , which we apply to objects as they present themselves to our senses .
3 There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat .
4 A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck .
5 You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two .
6 Kevin Bird took them to Split because he thought he get could from there to Britain .
7 Up to now , distribution has been via system integrators to the Federal and commercial markets , but it is now lowering retail prices for all its ViewStation FX Series of X terminals by 30% to 50% when it sells them direct .
8 They showed it to Murray and he confiscated it immediately .
9 erm and he was released and he came to Harlow and we meet him and that was , that was very good , erm , but we have n't had one like that , you know for a long time .
10 Terry has only been abroad once in his life — to Germany when he did his National Service .
11 Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record .
12 Wright , consistently in trouble this season , has insisted to Graham that he did n't throw a punch , but the Arsenal manager said:Graham said last night : ‘ I have now spoken to Ian and he insists he did not throw a punch .
13 The stories grew more inflamed with the telling and witnesses were about equally divided as to whether Beatrice encouraged Modi to debauchery or he provoked her .
14 He crashed on the main ‘ Route 7 ’ Speke Road in Ditton , Widnes , after offering to give 17-year-old Donna Jackson a lift home to Runcorn when she missed her last bus .
15 And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality .
16 It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa .
17 Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail .
18 So well Paul come out , I was talking to Steven and he said I come home last night and he said I could n't park me bloody car up cos there were cars everywhere , and they were all theirs .
19 The Government wants to reduce productivity payments to dentists because it says they 're treating too many patients.The move has been described by one dentist as appalling.Richard Barnett reports :
20 The Government wants to reduce productivity payments to dentists because it says they 're treating too many patients.The move has been described by one dentist as appalling.Richard Barnett reports :
21 It ran almost up to Mary-Lou before she saw it , she let the desk lid with a terrific bang and gave a heart rendering scream .
22 After all , as he wrote in his diary : ‘ Muhammed bin Tughluk was especially well known in his generosity to foreigners for he preferred them to the peoples of India .
23 Brightening , she held out her glass to Richard and he poured her more wine .
24 Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ?
25 As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up .
26 Such scenes of domestic bliss would only turn to torments and she forced him to be a spectre at the back of her mind .
27 You conclude your article by suggesting to readers that they reserve their money for those with integrity and courage , such as Amnesty International … and the Heavenly Records EP ! ! ? ?
28 Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions .
29 Why do the Government preach that we should listen to industry when they ignore everything that industry tells them about training in the construction sector ?
30 Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over .
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