Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more ants would need to go up into space for them to see themselves in perspective . |
| 2 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 3 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 4 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 5 | Sanay just ask me to drive you into town , baby . ’ |
| 6 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 7 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 8 | In waking life it was too strong to allow me to indulge myself in secret feasts , and I no longer felt any desire for them . |
| 9 | So , whilst they may encourage an atmosphere of informal comradeship and sociable learning , college teachers are not your equals and you should not expect them to treat you as such . |
| 10 | ‘ You expect me to accommodate you in that ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Would you prefer me to carry you to your dressing-room , strip that gown from your body , and dress you myself ? ’ |
| 12 | He also added that Moore had never asked them to forgive her for throwing their lives into grief and chaos . |
| 13 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 14 | Then he added , with a sudden burst of frankness , ‘ I reckoned the news would seep out anyway in time and cause them to lose plenty of sleep . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's very rude of me to burden you with my troubles . ’ |
| 16 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 17 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 18 | I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment . |
| 19 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 20 | I do as I 'm told , and he told me to include you in this job . ’ |
| 21 | It does n't seem to me to affect it in any way . |
| 22 | Some manufacturers provide figures on the energy that new appliances use , but there is usually nothing to compare them with . |
| 23 | We were n't really in love , but it seemed a very great deal like it at the time , before we spoiled it ; we both thought we were , and how can you tell for sure when it 's the first time and you 've nothing to compare it with ? |
| 24 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 25 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 26 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 27 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 28 | Would you like me to arrange it for you ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They enclosed full details of their Mavica asking me to compare it with my patents . |
| 30 | His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies . |