Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] to i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 2 | I am impatient and intolerant of much that seems to me to be merely negative , if not actually destructive , legislation . ’ |
| 3 | One event that seems to me to be very important is Vatican Two . |
| 4 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 5 | There then comes a sound that seems to me like a brick or tile being moved . |
| 6 | But it can be any image that comes to me at second-hand , whether it be postcard , film still , TV or whatever . |
| 7 | The wasted life and the wasted love that comes to me in the night and makes me cry out in pain . ’ |
| 8 | So I think it it is an issue that perhaps has n't been addressed in our discussions erm hitherto and and and seems to me from from past evidence to sugg to be an issue that does need to be to be looked at . |
| 9 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 10 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |