Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 2 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 3 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 4 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 5 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 6 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
| 7 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 8 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 9 | I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article . |
| 10 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 11 | Well we wish you luck obviously Simon in all your efforts this year , we hope to see you at the Oxford Stadium at some stage , and hope it goes well for you . |
| 12 | They were written to proclaim him as the Christ , the anointed of God , the revealer of the Father , and to elicit the appropriate response of faith and trust in him . |
| 13 | The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May . |
| 14 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 15 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 16 | Initially the Australians showed that they were unprepared to be manipulated by quietly but firmly refusing to commit themselves to the ANC 's extra-curricular initiatives for a Boipatong visit and the wearing of black armbands during matches . |
| 17 | ‘ They are attempting to drive us from the Highlands , but they can not . |
| 18 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 19 | ‘ You said you 'd like to see something of the Cotswold Way . |
| 20 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 21 | LOYALIST URBAN VIGILANTEES BEGIN TO FORM THEMSELVES INTO THE ULSTER DEFENCE ASSOCIATION . |
| 22 | Sharon writes , ‘ I would like to contact anyone in the Salisbury area who has recently had a home birth since I am contemplating one myself and would like to hear how it went , authorities/doctors ' attitudes etc . |
| 23 | There is talk of a film of The Factory Whistle , with Alan Bates , and they are going to read it on the BBC too . |
| 24 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 25 | ‘ I — er — forgot to ask you about the Palmer & Pearson — ’ It was as far as she got . |
| 26 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
| 27 | And I remembered our last day together when I 'd promised to bring you to the Peacock theatre and robbed you of your heart 's desire by forcing you into my bed instead . |
| 28 | It was announced on Sept. 23 that the Eagle Party had agreed to subsume itself within the NDC in support of the candidacy of Rawlings ( the national congress of the Eagle Party having itself asked Rawlings on Sept. 13 to be its presidential candidate ) . |
| 29 | Mummy did try to help them just a teeny weeny bit cos hyacinths , he 's going to show them at the Airdrie Town Hall , Bobby . |
| 30 | You 'd have to compare it to the Rickenbacker 650 reviewed last month — roughly the same price , but a much slicker guitar — or maybe a Hamer Special , if your tendencies are more Gibson-orientated . |