Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My longing is to meet you in play of love , my lover : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 12 | to see you from time to time |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | We seemed to wrap ourselves in coil after coil of finely spun logic , to raise our pedestal upon a mountain of phrases and formulas and to be unresponsive to the altered mood of those whose opinions we sought to change . |
| 15 | However , FreeHand is simpler to use for the amateur or casual artist and this may be all the motivation he or she needs to buy it in preference to Illustrator 88 . |
| 16 | Does he agree that the right way to encourage the electronics industry to export is to help it at home by tax cuts such as those announced yesterday by our right hon. Friend ? |
| 17 | Once Newton 's physics had been constituted , it was possible to apply it in detail to astronomy . |
| 18 | Other issues with which I shall not detain the House but which have been mentioned by other hon. Members include the design of motor vehicles , the admirable Which ? survey , the question of insurance and rewarding those who take adequate precautions to secure their vehicles by having the means to immobilise them in case of theft , safety improvements and cases such as those in Swansea , where , for example , the local authority has now put attendants in several of the key car parks . |
| 19 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 20 | Yeah you know what I 've done , it 's that er thing there well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray , and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up , you know when you move over and watching telly ? |
| 21 | She helped the children with their lessons each morning , then took them for walks and on shopping excursions in the afternoons , finally helping to put them to bed at night . |
| 22 | We 'd like you to put them in order of priority to agree with our judges ' decision . |
| 23 | The former Swansea City player unleashed a spectacular strike in front of the television cameras to put himself in contention for goal of the month . |
| 24 | There are free buses to ferry you from hotel to cable-car stations and the town has a warm , friendly atmosphere . |
| 25 | Your family doctor should be able to put you in touch with community health services . |
| 26 | And that caught the interest of everyone straight away er , budgeting , how to be able to look at banking etcetera , and I said well and I want you to do that first so I do n't mind mainly because I was gon na work wi with Anne about the , with the environments , and then it 's science , could n't cover with the with the environment that she would like me in tutorial to do and er she has n't , well it 's not her now , unfortunately , I think it 's Sue that is supposed to be working with me cos I want to do something on recycling of rubbish etcetera within the school and do a big sort of er project on it . |
| 27 | there there 's been a She asked us to do something in relation to employer awareness campaign . |
| 28 | I had now a faint ambition , both definite and indefinite , to do something in connection with learning or literature . |
| 29 | There is also the problem of repairs and maintenance of the property , which a woman may well not be able to afford , or be able to do herself through lack of experience or time . |
| 30 | ‘ He said to tell you he was working hard on the unknown numbers , and you are not to put yourself in danger of arrest . ’ |