Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] a [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| 2 | Cade towards the end of his life was being superseded by Jewish moneylenders , and as a Christian usurer he would come to appear as something of an anomaly after his death . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | before us but their plan now is to come after us on a D C nine |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He took the girls to the swimming pool after midnight , and then persuaded the victim to come with him to a changing room , on the pretext that the manager of the swimming pool might find them at the pool . |
| 13 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 14 | Before she could jerk herself out of her shocked paralysis , he had angled his head and driven his ruthless , demanding lips down to collide with hers in an explosion of sensation . |
| 15 | And erm you know they they they tend to meet before us on a Tuesday and they sort of stay hang around . |
| 16 | ‘ And so , ’ I continue , ‘ the suntan becomes fashionable and it 's no longer as necessary as it was — taking Robinson Crusoe by way of example — to hide from it under a parasol in order to conserve that fairness of skin threatened by the desert island climate . |
| 17 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 18 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 19 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 20 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 21 | It would be far easier than if he was just going to stand over her like a portent of doom with that horrible expression on his face . |
| 22 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 23 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 24 | The boy came over to Tallis and began to work on her with a knife . |
| 25 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 26 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 27 | I watched through George 's window as Filmer made great effort to go towards her with a smile , drawing attention away from the gaunt-faced man , who returned to the station . |
| 28 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |
| 29 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 30 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |