Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the former was impossible with the twins in tow and the latter unthinkable given the length of time he 'd have to wait for one on a Sunday . |
| 2 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 3 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 4 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
| 5 | When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa . |
| 6 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 7 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 8 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 9 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 10 | Cade towards the end of his life was being superseded by Jewish moneylenders , and as a Christian usurer he would come to appear as something of an anomaly after his death . |
| 11 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 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 | Tape Unit 14 is liable to come as something of a surprise to students who have not had the experience of examining colloquial English speech before . |
| 14 | So while interpreters working from spoken English to sign language are called upon to work for nothing as a service to these normal , intelligent ‘ disabled ’ people , those in the foreign spoken language interpretive role , where language users are equal , may rise to occupy one of the highest status roles in diplomacy , and correspondingly command high financial rewards . |
| 15 | Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season . |
| 16 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 17 | The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States . |
| 18 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 20 | before us but their plan now is to come after us on a D C nine |
| 21 | They might actually find it impossible to conceive of themselves without the slaves or serfs who defined their status . |
| 22 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 23 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , thank you , ’ she replied shortly , intending to slip past him to the treatment area to begin preparing for the first of the morning 's patients . |
| 25 | While the Americans had not entirely despaired of better relations with Nasser , they looked to the US 6th Fleet to remind possible trouble-makers of the power which the United States could immediately bring to bear against them in a crisis . |
| 26 | The party rejoined the coalition in 1921 in order to work against it from the inside . |
| 27 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 28 | clients are , are tapped into it , and we should be able to communicate with them at the press of a button . |
| 29 | Fortunately , she was petite and thin , almost to the point of emaciation , but all the same Sabine needed all her strength to struggle with her to the grass on the opposite side of the road . |
| 30 | Ada Thompson who knew Herbert Varley who was married to a Jewish girl , asked Daisy , one dank and drizzling November afternoon two years ago , to come with her to the Mandelbaums ' . |