Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modern terms , he evaluated who was to be evangelised and was willing to take responsibility to go to them in the work of evangelism . |
| 2 | It is a wonderful experience to sit with him in the quiet peacefulness of his home , the table cleared ( in addition to having had the house duly cleaned by his ‘ daily ’ ) to make room for the Sabbath candles , its bread and wine . |
| 3 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 4 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 5 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
| 6 | Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side . |
| 7 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 8 | The latter readily agreed , inviting Corbett to walk with him in the silent , shadowy cloisters , taking advantage of the first soft breezes of early summer . |
| 9 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 10 | In each case the owner of the goods was induced by fraud to part with them to the rogue . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been a special privilege to serve under you in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary and as the first Secretary of State for National Heritage . |
| 12 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 13 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 14 | And she did , leaving a very bewildered Ellie to look round her at the well-equipped kitchen and the gently steaming kettle . |
| 15 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 16 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 17 | My contact with David had fired me with an interest in Peru again , a desire to engage with it beyond the level of annoyance . |
| 18 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |
| 19 | For instance , in a dry country , animals and plants work to maintain the fluid content of their cells , work against a natural tendency for water to flow from them into the dry outside world . |
| 20 | Can I get the water to go in it with the jug ? |
| 21 | But I 've no problems to report to you from the buses . |
| 22 | But I stay out there singing some made-up song that goes with the waves crunching on the shingle , so she tosses stones in the water to plop near me in the darkness and I shout like an idiot and run back to the shore . |
| 23 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 24 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 25 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 26 | At least she had her uncle Somerset to watch over her on the journey , and the countess of Salisbury to be a mother to her until she was handed over at Cologne to Louis . |
| 27 | Do n't expect the various parts of solutions to problems to occur to you in the " right " order . |
| 28 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 29 | The battle now shifted to parliament , where the second reading was carried by a huge majority on 22 May ; many Unionists spoke against the Bill , but few could bring themselves to oppose it in principle , and so Sanders could mobilize only forty MPs to go with him into the No lobby . |
| 30 | When the cart was ready , he called Gabriel to sit beside him on the driver 's bench . |