Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lucy knew that the time had come for her to admit to the reason for her visit . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I could hear one of the children crying and shouted to them to get on the floor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He held his hand out to her , but Fran ignored it , brushing past him to head towards the door leading back from the deck . |
| 15 | Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point ? |
| 16 | Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch . |
| 17 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 18 | You would have forfeited Tracy Castle immediately , and ‘ t would have been granted to me to hold for the King . |
| 19 | If any forester do find any trespasser wandering within his liberty … within the forest … and after hue and cry made to him to stand unto the peace , will not yield himself , but flee or resist … if the forester do kill any such offender , he shall not be impeached for this felony . |
| 20 | The repetitive purr of the telephone broke into the fragile atmosphere , and Shelley walked past Miguel without looking at him to go into the villa . |
| 21 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 22 | Then without waiting for them to step into the room , she turned and left . |
| 23 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 24 | Adjusting her position and half closing her eyes against the sun , she too stared out over the garden , waiting for him to get to the point . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you to look after the children while I fetch him . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 're just waiting for it to rise to the surface are we , Sergeant ? |
| 27 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |
| 28 | And so happy and excited that it did not occur to her to worry about the devastating effect Paula was having on Edward . |
| 29 | All of these factors seem to me to point to the desirability of the judgment being exercised by the local authority , with their unique knowledge of the facts , rather than by the courts . |
| 30 | Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world . |