Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You control a floating hand that wibbles of its own accord but still responds to joystick commands , so you do n't have to wait for it to wobble onto the bit of the board you want to shoot at . |
| 2 | ‘ As I was blind , it was arranged for me to stay at the organiser 's house . |
| 3 | Particularly when Fergie — to the astonishment and great displeasure of Buckingham Palace staff — arranged for him to dine at the Queen 's official London residence with the Iraqi oil minister . |
| 4 | One night they crept into our house but he had arranged for us to sleep on the roof whilst through a crack he could watch our sleeping chamber . |
| 5 | Permission was given for it to move into the Imperial Institute , but there was no shelving , which made the library unusable . |
| 6 | We fought for them to come to the Assembly , where they could speak their minds and meet the Africans they never meet , and together listen to the Almighty Who might know better even than they what is best for the country . |
| 7 | ‘ What do you think about us moving into the big villa which is being built at Praia do Carvoeiro ? ’ |
| 8 | Parish council clerk Herbert Booty said gipsies had knocked down 200 saplings on the county council-owned land by driving through them to get onto the land . |
| 9 | Lucy knew that the time had come for her to admit to the reason for her visit . |
| 10 | ‘ Aye , he used to look out for his dad 's cart on a Saturday at about 4.45 and he 'd wait for it to come across the line there . |
| 11 | The man who was walking towards them stepped into the light of a streetlamp . |
| 12 | she said something about it in school , she goes she wants their names right and their occupation cos say like you go to the butcher shop and then you go to that and the other |
| 13 | With something like two-thirds of the whole French Army to pass along it bound for the dreadful Calvary of Verdun , the title Maurice Barres coined for it was hardly a profanity : the Voie Sacrée . |
| 14 | The electric kettle broke down and will not work unless somebody stands beside it holding in the knob . |
| 15 | That belief has to he communicated within the company as well as outside . |
| 16 | I could hear one of the children crying and shouted to them to get on the floor . |
| 17 | While writing this chapter , it occurred to me to look through the list of constellations to see in how many the five leading stars were , in order , Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta and Epsilon . |
| 18 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 19 | I held it while a hand moved over me checking for the hardware . |
| 20 | I have certainly heard of it happening in the present day , but the old methods are dying out as people become alienated from the countryside they live in . |
| 21 | That 's it , she can watch for you coming through the door . |
| 22 | But before Lucy could answer Doreen leaned forward and lied in a sweet voice , ‘ I told Miss Telford that you 'd said for her to get into the bus . |
| 23 | He held his hand out to her , but Fran ignored it , brushing past him to head towards the door leading back from the deck . |
| 24 | Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point ? |
| 25 | It is important to study the changing distribution of income between social groups in the present context , because it may carry with it changes in the distribution of income between different types of place . |
| 26 | Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch . |
| 27 | Handed in letter from my father stating that he had no other relatives in the area and because of his blindness and disability he would benefit from them moving into the area . |
| 28 | So it 's erm the deductions are actually made from you know through the county council payroll er each month . |
| 29 | Listening to them complaining about the usual stuff ! |
| 30 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |