Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 7 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | The party rejoined the coalition in 1921 in order to work against it from the inside . |
| 14 | clients are , are tapped into it , and we should be able to communicate with them at the press of a button . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ' . |
| 17 | So she asked Curtis and Mrs Files — who had been watching Delia Sutherland 's reaction from the service door — to come with her into the morning room where she explained the situation as frankly as possible . |
| 18 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 19 | It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away . |
| 20 | D' you reckon mom will agree to come with us on the skiing ? |
| 21 | ‘ Signor Skof , we would like you to come with us to the barracks to answer some questions , ’ one of them said ; and the other : ‘ You will be allowed home this afternoon . ’ |
| 22 | He replied on August 15 , suggesting that the SMG 's Balwinder Gill telephone the community liaison officer , adding ‘ should you wish to meet with me in the meantime , again this can be arranged . ’ |
| 23 | Morrissey asked his old friend , former Easterhouse guitarist Ivor Perry ( then with the infant Cradle ) to work with him with the possibility of Perry becoming Marr 's replacement . |
| 24 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 25 | In nineteen ninety four they are making us their charity of the year and offering to work with us across the U K to help raise an extra million . |
| 26 | Consequently we are asking all governing bodies to work with us in the compilation of comprehensive statements of their present and foreseeable needs at national and sub-national levels . |
| 27 | In any proceeding in which no pre-trial review has been fixed , the district judge may nonetheless give notice to the parties requiring them to appear before him on the day named in the notice , so that the question of giving directions may be considered ( Ord 17 , rr 10 and 11(4) ) . |
| 28 | Murray was summoned to appear before it in the spring of 1913 , but by then he was in South America acting for Lord Cowdray . |
| 29 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 30 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |