Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stepped down and sat on the thwart opposite to him . |
| 2 | Er , we report annually to you on our stewardship of the Options and the Horizon Agencies . |
| 3 | What you say basically to somebody is , right , what do you want them this height or that height ? |
| 4 | Agriculture will have to be re-thought , because most crops , at present , grow close to their physiological limits ; and present day wildlife reserves may prove unsuitable for the plants and animals they contain , as the climate within them changes . |
| 5 | When they say directly to you it stinks or something like that , you get hurt inside of you . |
| 6 | He hesitated a moment then gulped the drug down , feeling its warmth sear his throat and descend quickly to his stomach . |
| 7 | Davenport continues to run the Royal Oak , while the other hotels are run by salaried managers , who report directly to him . |
| 8 | If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick . |
| 9 | you see , until my next birthday , that is , you see , but I , well each year , you see , I always say well to my friends I am so thankful for my friends who drop in and each year I say , well I do n't suppose I will be here much longer but I shall be here , I hope , while I can walk |
| 10 | ‘ We regret in respect of the national anthems our undertaking has been violated and breached and we apologise unconditionally to anyone who has been offended by this breach ’ . |
| 11 | All this in a choice of four languages , English , French , German and Spanish , so will teach your child the basic understanding of foreign languages which ca n't be a bad thing , as every day , we grow closer to our European neighbours . |
| 12 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 13 | You meet perfect strangers , listen politely to their life stories and then , when they cock an inquisitive ear , you need no encouragement to answer their unspoken questions . |
| 14 | But you could n't refuse Corbett , or speak brutally to him . |
| 15 | " Listen only to them . |
| 16 | Speak only to me . |
| 17 | Although they are often cited as an instrument of central control , their effectiveness is difficult to determine because individual local authorities- and sometimes even different departments within the same authority — react differently to them . |
| 18 | ‘ Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbour , for we are all members of one body ’ ( Eph. 4:25 ) . |
| 19 | Listen carefully to what he has to say about your hair , and the sort of style he thinks might look good on you . |
| 20 | Guideline 11 : Listen carefully to what your child ( or teenager ) is saying to you . |
| 21 | Keep pestering your parents ( if they are Christians ) , or your church leader or youth leader for answers , and listen carefully to what they say . |
| 22 | Listen carefully to what people say and how they say it . |
| 23 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 24 | Listen carefully to what the delegates have said on the Report . |
| 25 | You listen carefully to what he wants . |
| 26 | ‘ Now , ’ he said , after inspecting Effie again , and taking McAllister out of earshot , ‘ listen carefully to me , for I do n't want to repeat myself later when things get difficult . |
| 27 | 3 Listen carefully to your partner 's story . |
| 28 | 3 Listen carefully to your partner 's story . |
| 29 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 30 | And listen now to me . |