Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She claims she has been forced to wait for him to call her from phone boxes . |
| 2 | ‘ Not only will everyone be rushing back to the city today , after the weekend vacation , but I understand Ross has been on the phone , getting the air-conditioning fixed and also seeing about someone to help you with the kids . |
| 3 | Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for someone to help me with my ironing . |
| 4 | We could have looked for something to press it with and pressed it . |
| 5 | ‘ I much prefer that the woman who lives with me call me by name . ’ |
| 6 | It looks to you to provide it with that light . |
| 7 | ‘ She is , but do n't fall over yourself thanking her for it . |
| 8 | He said well I used to work at I got it from . |
| 9 | The peace and quiet of the morning was shattered by someone bellowing something from the direction of Brigade H.Q Suddenly into view comes the Brigadier , Derek Mills Roberts . |
| 10 | Many Heads have expressed to me their appreciation of what the lu Labour Group has done for them to rescue them from the plight that the Tories imposed on them . |
| 11 | terms and conditions of engagement and as I said previously they are looking for us to provide them with spreads of expenditure of fees and , and Trevor 's looking into that . |
| 12 | ‘ I beg your pardon for intruding , ’ she said , ‘ but I came looking for someone to serve me with petrol and I heard your voices and then what you said about Brownies . ’ |
| 13 | He gestured for her to precede him through the door . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's time you called me Roman — we 're going to be very close to each other until we find Garry , and it wo n't do for you to address me as Mr Wyatt . ’ |
| 15 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 16 | ‘ Emily , my poor child , what will you do with no-one to protect you against the world ? ’ |
| 17 | Er you could do with something to hold it with or else you 're gon na get into a terrible terrible mess . |
| 18 | Your stupid behaviour would normally result in me sending you to prison but I feel I can take a different course . ’ |
| 19 | I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision . |
| 20 | then go on to the ones you marked as " different " and listen to them read one after the other . |
| 21 | The incident was reported in the press , however , and his secretary was quoted in one newspaper as saying , " Many Jewish people have written to him accusing him of anti-semitism . |
| 22 | He told me how , when he had first moved there , the local MP had written to him congratulating him on his climbing and mentioning that he had had a one-legged uncle who climbed . |
| 23 | Yeah , I guess it depends on what titillates you at the end of the day . |
| 24 | What would you do to it to turn it into this ? |
| 25 | ‘ Odets seemed to me to share something of Marilyn [ Monroe 's ] perceptive naivete ; like her , he was a self-destroying babe in the woods absentmindedly combing back his hair with a loaded pistol . ’ |
| 26 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 27 | He gestures for me to join him by patting the cushion to his left . |
| 28 | The first paragraph that effectively has been drafted for her give it to B T is likely to be a repeat of what she said about T G I and I think that will be it then so I do n't think that there is any large amount of work other than her work with T G I itself . |
| 29 | The police have sor , have got a copy of our emergency evacuation procedures , at the moment we 're waiting for them to return it to us . |
| 30 | Graham sitting there waiting for me to kick him in the teeth . |