Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are encouraging signs that our experiments in communication are starting to yield some useful results and we intend to continue with them in the future . |
| 2 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
| 3 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 4 | Although an opinion poll last week suggested they could just secure the required number of seats , the tide is expected to turn against them in the course of a three-week campaign . |
| 5 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 6 | There is a copy here if Members want to browse through it in the small hours of morning . |
| 7 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 8 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 9 | Went to stay with them and Ruth came to read to you in the morning . |
| 10 | Oh no , Ann came to read to you in the mornings did n't she ? |
| 11 | You see , I never saw him till he came to stay with us in the school holidays . ’ |
| 12 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 13 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 14 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 15 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 16 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 17 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 18 | Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system . |
| 19 | I do n't like to think of you in the cottage all by yourself . ’ |
| 20 | Gradually he did begin to stay with her in the evenings and to neglect the cafés . |
| 21 | Sometimes Henry wondered whether the junk food industry was going to be able to take the kind of demands Maisie was going to make on it in the years ahead . |
| 22 | Murray was summoned to appear before it in the spring of 1913 , but by then he was in South America acting for Lord Cowdray . |
| 23 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 24 | He replied on August 15 , suggesting that the SMG 's Balwinder Gill telephone the community liaison officer , adding ‘ should you wish to meet with me in the meantime , again this can be arranged . ’ |
| 25 | Did the Prime Minister feel no sense of humiliation at having to meet the other 11 Heads of Government and having to explain to them in the most public way why the British economy was so uniquely vulnerable and fragile that we alone were unable to provide the basic minimum provisions of the social charter ? |
| 26 | Chair , could I make , could I suggest maybe that in future when you ask organisations you make it harder for getting a license for street collection , that you tell them that you 'll want to know exactly the proportions , but I mean put it back on to them , rather than be you having to bother to it in the future . |
| 27 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 28 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 29 | This time Freddie elected to sit with her in the front of the car . |
| 30 | the amount of any deficiency on a current funding level basis , indicating the action , if any , being taken to deal with it in the current and future accounting periods . |