Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their business is designed to start with you at the R & D stage and stay with you through large scale manufacture . |
| 2 | The contract includes agreement not only about what new skills and knowledge need to be learned but also about why they are needed , how they will be applied and what is expected to result from them within the school or office . |
| 3 | Although an opinion poll last week suggested they could just secure the required number of seats , the tide is expected to turn against them in the course of a three-week campaign . |
| 4 | But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook . |
| 5 | He was actually expressly forbidden to speak to me about the matter . |
| 6 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 7 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 8 | But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place . |
| 10 | His Majesty being made acquainted with it by the Bishop of London , Order was given for calling the Printers into the High-Commission , where upon Evidence of the Fact , the whole Impression was called in , and the Printers deeply fined , as they justly merited . |
| 11 | The young hedgehogs are reared by their mothers , and at about four weeks of age they may be seen foraging with her in the darkness . |
| 12 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 15 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 16 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 17 | They do n't have superhuman powers to help them deal with the superstar image and pressures that they have had to put on them by the media and their fans . |
| 18 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 19 | Murray was summoned to appear before it in the spring of 1913 , but by then he was in South America acting for Lord Cowdray . |
| 20 | We were warmly invited to stay with them for the duration of the festival , and were conducted to the top floor for a rather formal preliminary audience with Ranteallo and his elders . |
| 21 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 22 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 23 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 24 | I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton . |
| 25 | I have been asked to write to you about the street light outside Annfield on Station Lane Scorton . |
| 26 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 27 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
| 29 | In the case of a minor , or of a mental patient where no person is authorised to act for him by the Court of Protection , then the " next friend " must file a written undertaking ( N 235 ) , attested as would be an affidavit , to be responsible for costs ( Ord 10 , r 2(b) ) . |
| 30 | Just wanted to speak to you about the skis that was all . |