Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think I 'd take to it .
2 I promised , you see , I promised I 'd go to him if he asked .
3 Having lost my own job , I found I could relate to everything in this honest and moving article .
4 D' you know you can talk to your dreams — ask them questions .
5 And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years .
6 I do n't know we 'll have to what I can freeze wo n't we ?
7 I expect he can talk to her in a way he ca n't talk to me .
8 They say they understand Oxfam 's difficulty with the law , but say it must apply to them .
9 Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once …
10 ‘ That 's why I want him to know he can talk to us .
11 And again and again , on my side , I wanted to know what would happen to us .
12 You do n't know what may happen to him .
13 They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death .
14 Do you know what would happen to us if we got caught with this stuff ?
15 I do n't know what will happen to me .
16 I do n't know what will happen to him when his money runs out .
17 Stanley is obviously worried when Blanche arrives as he wonders what will happen to his sex life and his relationship with Stella :
18 WILLIAMS : I hope I may trust to your discretion not to let Mr. Belville know from whom you had the information .
19 They have n't got one and I 'll s er say this as I 've said everything on the wireless or anything , whatever I 've said I 'll say to their face , and I can slot the num perhaps they ca n't prove everything but you know it 's there .
20 comes through , so if you just wait I 'll talk to you again a little bit about that
21 If that makes a difference to you , I hope you 'll write to me .
22 Er , the , so something must be done quickly , I fear , about the er , management er of er , er the , the new structure and I hope you would agree to it unless anyone else has got , yes ?
23 Well and he wrote me this letter saying erm saying I , I realise that there 's been something on your mind recently and I hope you can talk to me about it .
24 Mrs Aquino has said she will bow to its decision but is confident it will again rule in her favour .
25 The important question , though , is not so much whether such features are or are not objectively present , but what significance and function one should assign to them if they are .
26 ‘ That Byrne fellow is gone loony , ’ he told whoever would listen to him .
27 If any readers would like to receive a free copy of an information sheet I have produced on the types of environmental audits and what they can achieve they should write to me at the address below :
28 But the makers hope it will come to our tv screens and to the cinemas later .
29 And I mean the nurses and everybody , the doctors were really great , and they give us the best of treatment there , and I do n't think you 'll speak to anybody that was in the hospital that 'll say anything differently , they were really great .
30 erm , so that if , if they then go to an appeal er , I was talking to this planning officer and I was saying that I think I 'll consult them , he said I do n't think you 'll need to he said , and of what you 've done so far is pretty good and I can get access to all the letters that have been written in , in objecting into the into the homes
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