Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather stay talking to you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't keep challenging it all the time because otherwise they just stop listening to you . |
| 3 | Cos we just enjoy talking to you so much ! |
| 4 | Things just keep happening to him . |
| 5 | Mrs Murchie added : ’ I did not know what to do so I just kept talking to her until the ambulance arrived . |
| 6 | I just kept saying to her it could n't work . |
| 7 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 8 | The Devil always started whispering to him when he was especially bored . |
| 9 | That was his first mistake : he could not now avoid talking to me . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't even bother speaking to him for 24 hours before a match , ’ was the advice of a Danish team-mate . |
| 11 | let's put it accurately , erm , it would be as presently advised submitting to me in effect events which |
| 12 | I went down and the guy there started talking to me and we talked for five hours about life , about the reality of life , the reality of desires and goals and all that good stuff . |
| 13 | And he had never stopped talking to her . |
| 14 | And that is absolutely mind blowing to me |