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Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I ought to write to her at some point .
2	I must speak to you about this . ’
3	‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster .
4	John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that .
5	The seller then becomes a trustee for the buyer and must account to him for any dividends he receives and vote in accordance with his instructions ( or appoint him as his proxy ) .
6	I think I should say to you at this point , that if you 're moving into these areas , you are moving into what I can , or , just totally contrary in fact to your policies , and directions , and er , not only that , I think we have difficulty sustaining .
7	take care love , and if I do n't see you , when I , I 'll speak to you before any way .
8	I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’
9	‘ I 'll talk to you for all the time we 're on this train .
10	I , I 'll talk to you about that later Emma actually .
11	I 'll talk to you about that
12	I 'll talk to you in half an hours time .
13	Having lost my own job , I found I could relate to everything in this honest and moving article .
14	Durance appealed to Rain : ‘ Can you believe a woman I 'd taught everything could speak to me like that ? ’
15	A serious accident could happen to you at any time today , tomorrow , next year .
16	His mother Mrs Alice McGettigan said : ‘ It could happen to anyone at any time .
17	I was shaking with embarrassment that he could talk to me in this way at all , as if he knew me , as if he had the right to question me .
18	He thought that he left the church unnoticed , but Isobel saw him as she stepped out of her pew , and , as far as anything could penetrate to her at such a time , she was touched by his solicitude .
19	One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read .
20	I never imagined that the business side would appeal to you at all .
21	‘ We are very concerned at these incidents and we would appeal to anyone with any information to contact us or the police before an animal is killed . ’
22	As this substance has properties akin to those of ferments I have called it a ‘ Lysozyme ’ , and shall refer to it by this name throughout the communication .
23	Glasgow Polytechnic has set up a graduates association and would like to her from any graduates or diplomates .
24	We shall return to it under another heading in 6 .
25	And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty …
26	On the car journey , which took an hour and a half each way , he would talk to her with all the will he could muster about the toy shops .
27	Yet who would have thought I would talk to myself in this way in these notes ? he wrote .
28	And Ruth felt she had n't understood till now what it meant , to be Jake 's daughter ; she 'd never guessed that one day he would turn to her like this , calling her to understand all the past and set her own strength beside his .
29	As a complete an utter novice I am seeking a publication that will explain to me in more or less layman 's terms how my computer works and what I should/could be doing with it !
30	Probably their teachers will speak to them in this style , though what the learners are likely to encounter when they join in conversations with native speakers is what we have referred to previously as a ‘ rapid , casual ’ style .