Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 2 | The minister explained that this kind of frontal approach was the wrong way to go about it with God . |
| 3 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 4 | I 'm seeing on Tuesday to see how he wants to g us to go about it in Norway . |
| 5 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 6 | Now you 've heard about them of course , you must have heard about them . |
| 7 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 8 | I have n't heard about it for years . |
| 9 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 10 | Some of you might have heard about it in the press . |
| 11 | Or just heard about it from your dad ? ’ |
| 12 | I think most people heard about it from r.s.s. , but I hope some have come on from TSB . |
| 13 | I think most people heard about it from r.s.s. , but I hope some have come on from TSB . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm surprised I have n't heard about you on the grapevine . |
| 15 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 16 | Are all children and me , and adults who have been baptised members of the church ? is not or you 'll be actually encouraged or pressured to misinterpret the membership or should we wait for them to be informed er er , to wait for them to , to feel the ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 19 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had sent her , with Ned and the barmaids and Heaven knew how many others watching , to wait for him in his bed . |
| 22 | When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa . |
| 23 | ’ Even if a car is n't in stock and we have to wait for it to be built , we can generally hold the agreed price . ’ |
| 24 | But rather than saying , ‘ Sorry mate , you 'll have to wait for it to be repaired , ’ Doug said , ‘ Take that one over there ! ’ pointing to an equivalent amp . |
| 25 | Did you have to wait for it to be done ? |
| 26 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 27 | While this internal argument reached its height , his superiors argued about him without his knowledge . |
| 28 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 29 | She got through it without a mistake . |
| 30 | But we got through it in the end and their happy , and I 'm happy ! |