Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] to [pers pn] " 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 | I expect he can talk to her in a way he ca n't talk to me . |
| 4 | They say they understand Oxfam 's difficulty with the law , but say it must apply to them . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | ‘ That 's why I want him to know he can talk to us . |
| 7 | And again and again , on my side , I wanted to know what would happen to us . |
| 8 | You do n't know what may happen to him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Do you know what would happen to us if we got caught with this stuff ? |
| 11 | I do n't know what will happen to me . |
| 12 | I do n't know what will happen to him when his money runs out . |
| 13 | comes through , so if you just wait I 'll talk to you again a little bit about that |
| 14 | If that makes a difference to you , I hope you 'll write to me . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ That Byrne fellow is gone loony , ’ he told whoever would listen to him . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Do you think you could speak to them on my behalf ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You may think you can lie to me , but you ca n't go on lying to yourself , ’ he said with calm assurance . |
| 23 | The job analysts within E L T , are Neil Butterfield , John Dennis , Anne and Claire Nichol , and they are , in fact , if you like , a sort of second or I mean you can go to them to get advice about how to fill in the job description rather than go to your manager , or if if if you have some dispute or disagreement or whatever the job analysts can can can help in that . |
| 24 | I may not have a lot to give but what I 've got I 'll give to you |
| 25 | Had she really thought she could talk to me ? |
| 26 | You 'd have thought it would occur to them to make it fire-proof , as well . |
| 27 | clearly written leaflets available before you go into hospital that describe what will happen to you in hospital , what you need to bring with you and so on ; |
| 28 | ‘ Do you realize what will happen to you if you are tried ? ’ |
| 29 | So we 've got a pile of bones , a pile of building material , lumps of wood , what do you think we might do to them next ? |
| 30 | Durance appealed to Rain : ‘ Can you believe a woman I 'd taught everything could speak to me like that ? ’ |