Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They should change the law to include them with dogs like pit bulls which have to wear a muzzle . |
| 2 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 3 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 4 | The recognition of interests and groups in society , and a concern to see them in relation to government and the development of public policy represented an important breakthrough in the study of British politics . |
| 5 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 6 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 7 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 8 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 9 | It seems more elegant , and closer to the linguistic facts of the case , to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 10 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 11 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 12 | Somebody phoned an ambulance and was told that it would take between an hour and an hour and a half to arrive , so Derek volunteered to drive me to Casualty at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth , forty-five miles away . |
| 13 | The Bible tells us how to conduct ourselves in relation to God and to our fellow men . |
| 14 | In fact on erm on one of the erm sheets that I 've brought up there 's a notice of how to repair them with bits of cycle inner tube . |
| 15 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 16 | During the 1950s and early 1960s a lot of effort was devoted to attempts , in the first place , to identify and measure parental attitudes and , in the second place , to relate them to characteristics of child behaviour . |
| 17 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 18 | After more than five years of talks , outstanding difficulties centred on ( i ) whether it could be acceptable under GATT rules for the EC to make direct payments to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies ( a key part of plans to reform the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy ) ; ( ii ) the volume of EC grain exports ; and ( iii ) EC demands for limits on US exports of cereal substitutes to the EC . |
| 19 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 20 | terms and conditions of engagement and as I said previously they are looking for us to provide them with spreads of expenditure of fees and , and Trevor 's looking into that . |
| 21 | Although it is not common practice , some firms place wives in employment within the company overseas , where this is appropriate , or take steps to provide them with details of employment opportunities abroad . |
| 22 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 23 | For the Lord revealed , ‘ I intend to baptise them with tongues of fire ’ ( Wagner 1973:16 ) . |
| 24 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 25 | J. was blown off his bicycle by the force of one explosion , while cycling from one aircraft to another , and woke up to find himself in hospital with concussion . |
| 26 | Trading statements and bid situations continued to provide plenty of work for analysts and recent buoyant sectors like properties , insurances , and stores ran into profit-taking . |
| 27 | Trading statements and bid situations continued to provide plenty of work for analysts and recent buoyant sectors like properties , insurances , and stores ran into profit-taking . |
| 28 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 29 | For reasons which can only be guessed at he decided to establish himself near Keswick in Cumberland and returned in the following year with Hans Loner , a relative by marriage , and twelve German workers , to set up works and to prospect more fully . |
| 30 | My longing is to meet you in play of love , my lover : |