Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the reason why we were attracted to it was of course the very point that that they would translate the disks for nothing , we would n't have to type out the register , and they would also add the telephone numbers without us having to look them all up so that we could do telephone canvassing . |
| 2 | If you want to It 's at the very back , I can see it . |
| 3 | If the court is satisfied that the petition and other documents presented to it are in order , the petition and all the copies will be sealed and two copies handed back to the petitioner . |
| 4 | Mat Smith in Melody Maker thought ‘ Once More ’ was : ‘ Catchier than clap and faster than a departing Heseltine ’ and Richard Cook in Sounds thought listening to it was like : ‘ Eating a ton of nails . ’ |
| 5 | When I came to I was in the cabin at the end of M.3 and still having a saline transfusion . |
| 6 | And when I came to it was with an audible pop in the ears , and a rich consciousness of solitude , and a feeling of love and admiration for this big stolid body I was in , which even now was preoccupied and unconcerned , straining out over the rose bed to adjust a loose swathe of clematis on the wooden wall . |
| 7 | I mean th the , the analogy that occurs to me is of a dam holding back a raging torrent . |
| 8 | ‘ Trying to talk to you is like trying to charge through a brick wall . |
| 9 | Among his successors as Duke of Aquitaine only Richard is known to have written verse and certainly neither of the two surviving poems attributed to him is of this quality . |
| 10 | The papers might talk about the swinging sixties but the nearest most girls of Maura 's age got to it was in the clothes they wore . |
| 11 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 12 | They offered in effect a free counselling service and many of the problems brought to them were of a spiritual nature , which in itself showed the high level of spiritual and religious interest in England during the fourteenth century . |
| 13 | So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while . |
| 14 | And I 'm taut with fear , she reproached herself , when all that can happen to me is to be thrown out of this damned clinic . |
| 15 | But in due course er when I was still off with flu , erm back to the specialist another test , you know , and that was er March , April of last year and the result of it was that there is something in there which is characteristic of what 's , what we call multiple sclerosis which seems to me is about as broad as it 's long , you know , it 's , it 's a very large |
| 16 | He had not given his name in Russian and the bunk that was allocated to him was against the wall at the furthest stretch from the narrow band of heat that the boiler might service . |
| 17 | The chief implication of his findings was that although Leese was the dominant personality of the movement , the literary output usually ascribed to him was in part a joint enterprise of the literary board . |
| 18 | We 've been talking to Michael Medleycote from the British Tourist Authority , and one of the points I was making to him was with the recession and also the Gulf war people are very concerned , a ) there 's the cost of flying , but also they 're concerned of course about security . |
| 19 | You know , they 're very I mean the w they way how it was put to me is to d same with all your questions , it was the er , was it the tail wagging the dog . |
| 20 | Talking to her was like hacking a way through a jungle . |
| 21 | Ruth saw he could n't move ; the only life left to him was in his eyes , burning . |
| 22 | One of the most flattering things ever said to me was by a teacher who said , ‘ Kinnock , I 'd like to call you lazy but nobody who 's as big a nuisance as you are is lazy . ’ |
| 23 | Oh w when I first went to place I I had to er I had to clean er clean I had to I was like a scullery maid . |
| 24 | It seems the only time I can ever talk to you is on the way to violin lessons and on the way back . " |
| 25 | They changed their name , but the couple who were described to me were without doubt the Stapletons . ’ |
| 26 | But the attention paid to it was of a completely different nature to that accorded to male blood . |