Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 2 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 3 | In early 1958 he received a stream of well-placed visitors during his fortnightly trips to the capital . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a part of me still wants to be back in Bosnia and if I get the chance I 'll be there like a shot . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She 's been so conditioned by her husband that she instinctively kowtows to any man who says ‘ boo ’ to her . ’ |
| 6 | Whey-faced and wobbling , she slowly rises to a kneeling position behind the chair and peers out over a rampart of faded chintz , searching the room for the source of my voice . |
| 7 | Newton , for example , she merely refers to as ‘ a sober , silent , thinking lad ’ , a description that contrasts markedly with Storr 's : |
| 8 | Poor darling , she only wants to be taken out . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 10 | She normally goes to bed about half past seven . |
| 11 | And then , aware of how much she already means to him : ‘ I suppose every dad wants a daughter . ’ |
| 12 | She know that and she just seems to be like a vicious circle all the time , I mean she does n't , I mean just getting deeper , deeper into debt . |
| 13 | Sa , she her eyes are getting blacker every time and she she just seems to be in her books all the time , and everything now . |
| 14 | ‘ She just wants to be alone with her boys to try to forget the separation traumas . |
| 15 | She just wants to be in bed for a day . |
| 16 | Cos I do n't know whether it 's BO , but she just smells to quite honest ! |
| 17 | like , she 's coloured right , but she 's a bit portly and she just smells to be quite honest ! |
| 18 | So she says , she always says to me do n't buy erm |
| 19 | She always listens to it while she 's ironing . |
| 20 | ‘ But you know how she always likes to be in the centre of things . ’ |
| 21 | She always talks to me . |
| 22 | I mean she could come up to us , but she always seems to be rushing about , here , there and everywhere do n't she ? |
| 23 | She always comes to the house . |
| 24 | need to know , need to know , I do n't know mum , I could n't tell you just erm stick it on before you go to bed just give it a bit of time to take the chill of it , alright , bye You can if you wish discard everything that 's just been said I mean my mother 's trying to book my holiday which does n't surprise me , , but then again she usually tries to anyway , where you going ? , what you doing ? , who you going with ? right , I shall tell you now the exam questions shall I ? , what do you want to know ? |
| 25 | Not because she purposely wants to be but because she just do n't think she 'd to done it , do you ? |
| 26 | if you ev if she ever says to you she has n't seen you since whatever it was , you say Carole it works both ways , I have n't seen you either . |
| 27 | If she ever speaks to us again |
| 28 | For a few agonizing minutes the camera holds on her face as she experiences — she hardly seems to be enjoying — sexual attentions out of the range of the camera . |
| 29 | She still belongs to Hannah , and is merely boarding out . |
| 30 | Motivated by a ‘ passion ’ for what she does , she still refuses to ‘ take it that seriously ’ , emphasising that , as far as motherhood goes , she will not compromise . |