Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ' . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 5 | A man I 'd met only twice , a bit of a loner , invited me to go with him to the West Indies . |
| 6 | It was looked on as not advisable to deal with it under the Liverpool Corporation Act . |
| 7 | Getting the weans in to sleep with them in the Kingsize and of course will they move back to their bunkbeds once He 's back ? |
| 8 | But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook . |
| 9 | Reagan absorbed many other valuable lessons from his experience as governor of California and it is possible to see in this period the evolution of a style of executive leadership that he was to take with him to the White House . |
| 10 | We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price . |
| 11 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 12 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |