Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you both think I 'm an egotistical shit , going on about wanting to be famous . |
| 2 | I think Chris on about moving to blinking Gainsborough , now . |
| 3 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 4 | I am assailed with feelings of irritation mixed with amusement at the number of pilots who , despite cheerfully paying many hundreds if not thousands of pounds on their chosen hobby , carp on about having to fork out three or four quid over the odds in selected landing fees , or as in the case of correspondent K. Foster £46 for a medical combined with an ECG . |
| 5 | If the kite turns either way left or right , then increase the pull on the opposite side , right for turning to the right and left for a left turn . |
| 6 | He felt cold to the point of shivering , weak enough for standing to be out of the question . |
| 7 | Thank you very much for listening to me patiently , I said I would try to keep that down to erm a fairly brief session . |
| 8 | Peggy , thank you very much for talking to us . |
| 9 | Richard Clutterbuck , thank you very much for talking to us . |
| 10 | Thank you very much for talking to us about it . |
| 11 | Thank you very much for talking to me Dickie . |
| 12 | No , I think I 've asked you quite enough , and thank you very much for talking to me . |
| 13 | Christopher Cooper thank you very much for talking to us . |
| 14 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 15 | ‘ No , we were n't , and I thought you said you saw Lewis as he came back inside after talking to me ? |
| 16 | It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully . |
| 17 | The subsequent release of 1,300 pages of witness interviews and depositions collected by the police during their investigation contained many inconsistencies , but appeared to contradict Senator Kennedy 's assertion that he learned of the alleged assault only after returning to Washington DC on April 1 . |
| 18 | I mentioned the incident at Land 's End and was told that it was not unusual for student pilots who dare to stray into the military areas to receive a safe wingtip and tail helicopter escort home , leaving the student a gibbering wreck long after returning to the club house . |
| 19 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 20 | Slowly I aided upwards , thinking only of getting to the sling ; the rest would be a later worry . |
| 21 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 22 | ‘ I DO N'T feel much like going to Pack Meeting tonight , ’ said Penny sadly . |
| 23 | He was a hard-nosed , tunnel-visioned businessman , concerned only with getting to his precious meeting on time . |
| 24 | Amis 's novels have always been full of opinions , and have , I think , become prone to a marked ambiguity of effect , especially with regard to questions of gender and race . |
| 25 | He continued sadly , ‘ But alas ! the yoke of slavery is now become more burdensome , and conditions worse than before , especially with regard to the forests . ’ |
| 26 | Given the very complex nature of France 's post-war politics , especially with regard to Algeria in the late 1950s it is hardly surprising that the SDECE , as the DGSE was then known , has found itself embroiled in numerous scandals . |
| 27 | Once again opinions vary as to whether conditions should be attached with the aim of controlling odour pollution and is regarded by some planners as an undesirable duplication of powers , a view endorsed by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution especially with regard to planning conditions designed to control air pollution from registered works . |
| 28 | If a repeat does occur the immediate response should be a brief interview sufficient to make a satisfactory assessment , especially with regard to suicidal intent . |
| 29 | Retrospective investigations of the effectiveness of psychiatric help for attempted suicide patients have provided encouraging results , but the drawbacks of retrospective research , including poor matching of comparison groups especially with regard to subtle factors like motivation for treatment , cast doubts on the validity of the findings . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , current trends , especially with regard to unemployment , are in the opposite direction . |