Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 2 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 3 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 4 | Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ? |
| 5 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 6 | Mr Calvert was n't fit enough to talk to us about the bookings . |
| 7 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 8 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
| 9 | it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm |
| 10 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |
| 11 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 12 | The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum . |
| 13 | I do not have the room to articulate this opposition here , but only to point to it via the already observed generalising tendency in de Man 's thought . |
| 14 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 15 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 16 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 17 | The last type comes under the cal umbrella , but it should be clear which application in the lists below apply to which of the others . |
| 18 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 19 | They can literally come to you at the museum can they ? |
| 20 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 21 | Information is only appended to them in the form of agreement comments during their various states . |
| 22 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 23 | Call the Coastguard for information if in doubt — they would rather speak to you on the phone than have to rescue you on the water ! |
| 24 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 25 | And Jesus does n't just chat to us for the sake of chatting to us , he , when he speaks to us his words have authority , they have input , they are vital and we must pay attention to them . |
| 26 | If you have any of the conditions listed , your doctor may have already spoken to you about the importance of healthy eating , and a healthy lifestyle . |
| 27 | Even when doubled the Funds will take up only a quarter of the EC budget and will approximately amount to something in the order of 4 per cent of the total estimated aggregate gains from completing the SEM . |
| 28 | There 's one other area that 's just sprung to me about the trainee and their actual ability . |
| 29 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 30 | The bird has a piercing yellow eye and I think an older generation of wild-fowlers still refers to it as the golden-eye although that name , strictly speaking , belongs to an entirely different species . |