Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings . |
| 32 | ‘ Although our main aim is to provide accommodation and care ’ , he says , ‘ we also give advice and support to homeless people and try to assist them to resettle back in the community . |
| 33 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 34 | However , our editor asks me to look in at the United States ; so be it . |
| 35 | ‘ He told me to look out of the window — he had stolen my car , the car he bought for me . |
| 36 | We had just passed over a gaggle of eighteen-thousand-foot volcanoes , great slag heaps of ash with gaping vents pointed at the clear blue bowl of the heavens , when he finally shifted in his seat and leaned across me to look out of the window , blinking his eyes . |
| 37 | He wants you to go up to the villa . ’ |
| 38 | The young man know as Sandro appeared at the house and his parents said ‘ we do n't want you to go back to the Hare Krishna movement ’ . |
| 39 | ‘ I want you to go back to the house and telephone the Incident Room . |
| 40 | ‘ What on earth possessed you to go down to the sea ? ’ asked Mrs Ridley . |
| 41 | " Did Comrade Andrew tell you to go down to the picket ? |
| 42 | Wycliffe said : ‘ I want you to come back to the Incident Room with me where you will be asked to make a full statement . ’ |
| 43 | The presenting problem should be recognised , for example , ‘ Your niece wondered if you would like us to arrange for you to come out for the day once a week ? ’ |
| 44 | ‘ I keep asking you to come out in the boat , you say you have to work . |
| 45 | ‘ So now , my dears , there 's two of you to warm up by the fire ! ’ |
| 46 | Only when we get to the seventh paragraph of the story do we hear Benn 's statement to the court , which claims that the PC said : ‘ You black bastard , this will teach you to mess about with the police . ’ |
| 47 | The harness really does take the pain out of windsurfing and allows you to stay out on the water far longer . |
| 48 | Talking of your first P-bass , what originally inspired you to get on to the instrument ? |
| 49 | ‘ I want you to get back to the docks and get everybody out as fast as you can . |
| 50 | ‘ Midge , I want you to get back into the car , close the doors and lock them from the inside . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ I asked — and I mean asked — you to get back into the car for you own safety . |
| 52 | I want you to think back to the story of Mufaro |
| 53 | ‘ We 'd expect you to stay a couple of years , but obviously there 's going to be no pressure on you to move on at the end of that period . |
| 54 | Lay some stones to allow you to step in to the wheel to pick your herbs . |
| 55 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 56 | And the only thing I need to ask you about is that bloody great , bloody great memo , I 've said it so I 'll say it again it 's pinned up in my old tutor 's room what do you want me to put down on the document for the record of achievement on attendance ? |
| 57 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
| 58 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 59 | Mr Fu , probably illiterate , can not get the kind of job with a township enterprise that would enable them to keep up with the Lis . |
| 60 | On holiday , when people look at my freckles and fair hair and warn me to keep out of the sun , I give a deep confident laugh and assure them that I turn mahogany brown . |