Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have been bombarded with letters from people wanting to know what happens to Tony and Sharon . |
| 2 | ‘ I have seen a few busy streets in my life , ’ Shae said quietly , sure she was being baited , but refusing to let herself rise to it . |
| 3 | Another prisoner wrote to me recently , and I am now seeking to get him transferred to a prison nearer his home in Liverpool . |
| 4 | He shall have my support in seeking to have it transferred to his care . |
| 5 | Mandeville and Santerre had arrived at Templecombe wanting to make everyone dance to their tune . |
| 6 | A lot of people were waiting to see what happened to me . |
| 7 | I hope he is n't going to expect you to listen to him singing again . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not going to let him get to me . |
| 9 | He was going to let you come to the sanatorium to see me . |
| 10 | She was not going to allow herself to react to him . |
| 11 | Coaches will be waiting to transfer you direct to Longchamp for the racing . |
| 12 | Reports from the Soviet Union itself were also beginning to reveal what appeared to be the latent horrors of the disaster — the large numbers of children born with deformities , the thyroid complaints , the increase in immune deficiency . |
| 13 | Beryl Smith again drew attention to the strenuous time our trainers have , called upon as they are to travel so far and having to tackle what seems to be a non-stop training programme . |
| 14 | It is about people coming to identify and express personal feelings , wishes and circumstances and coming to understand what contributes to the positive and negative of their existence . |
| 15 | Cleaning the beat meant fitting each new situation into past patterns , trying to handle them according to traditional recipes . |
| 16 | For this reason we spend a lot of time with relatives trying to help them come to terms with the whole admission process . |
| 17 | I was trying to persuade her to move to a retirement flat in Waverley Road . ’ |
| 18 | Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police . |
| 19 | And a section of the crowd followed him everywhere , trying to persuade him to speak to the Angel — to intercede with the Miracle-Worker on their behalf . |
| 20 | Mrs. Fielding 's family had been hoping to have her moved to shelterd housing since her husband died . |
| 21 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 22 | Joseph was trying to get someone to explain to him what the exchanges between Durance and Maurin had been about and where Maurin had gone . |
| 23 | Nothing can bring David back but I 'm trying to stop it happening to someone else . |
| 24 | We 're not saying you ca n't do it because we 're trying to say you need to be aware of these problems because we need to find solutions to some of them , erm and A L O work is definitely one of them , that report from the home office and the D V suggests quite categorically that er that there should be a crime prevention input into all planning applications . |