Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 2 | When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Murray was summoned to appear before it in the spring of 1913 , but by then he was in South America acting for Lord Cowdray . |
| 7 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
| 8 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 9 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 10 | ‘ It has been a special privilege to serve under you in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary and as the first Secretary of State for National Heritage . |
| 11 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 12 | We need biblical ways of practising the presence of God and to listen to him in the power of his Spirit . |
| 13 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 14 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 15 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 16 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 17 | ‘ We shall want you to play for us in the pageant . ’ |
| 18 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
| 19 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 20 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 21 | But I stay out there singing some made-up song that goes with the waves crunching on the shingle , so she tosses stones in the water to plop near me in the darkness and I shout like an idiot and run back to the shore . |
| 22 | He smoked all the time and at the end asked me to walk with him in the Park . |
| 23 | Come to us , God of justice , that we may hear the cries of the dispossessed in every land , calling us , like Jesus the healer , to walk with them in the search for justice and mercy . |
| 24 | During the Thirties when we were all in the big bands , I remember the really fiery jazz clarinet he used to play with us in the Bag O' Nails , just about the first jazz club in Britain . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You shall have a piano , and I 'll practise the flute to play with you in the evenings . ’ |
| 26 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 27 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 28 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 29 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 30 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |