Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It seems more elegant , and closer to the linguistic facts of the case , to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For the Lord revealed , ‘ I intend to baptise them with tongues of fire ’ ( Wagner 1973:16 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My longing is to meet you in play of love , my lover : |
| 17 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 18 | Deborah invited me to meet her at home in North London , and mentioned on the phone that her mum , Elaine , would like to meet me too . |
| 19 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 20 | She wanted to tear out the truth , to demand it , to extract it with magnets of iron , to burn it out of this man with a desperate scream if needs be . |
| 21 | It became virtually impossible to find anyone except NGC in favour of the plans . |
| 22 | Thus if you are Jewish and working class , your Jewishness is used to disqualify you from membership of labour organizations ; but equally if you are Jewish and poor , your poverty is made to signify the essentially parasitic nature of your ‘ race ’ on the host community . |
| 23 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 24 | If we are to speak meaningfully in terms of membership it is probably better to define it in terms of communicant or active membership . |
| 25 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 26 | I did phone her a few weeks ago and she said , ooh I 'll have to see you on Friday in Mould you know get a |
| 27 | to see you from time to time |
| 28 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 29 | Paul reminded Timothy " how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus " . |
| 30 | If you were prone to feeling miserable , for example , the aim is to prevent feelings of misery rather than to swop them for feelings of ecstasy . |