Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various high-ranking people , ending up with the governor himself , turned up , asking them to go to bed , but they would n't go . |
| 2 | When Loc , with another worried glance in Jacques Devraux 's direction , insisted it was time for them to go to bed , Paul galloped across the clearing with little Hoc on his shoulders and dumped the boy squealing with laughter on his sleeping mat . |
| 3 | Most people were kept awake by Jon Wensley telling them to go to sleep . |
| 4 | They wash them , help them perform the intimate functions of relieving bladder and bowels , change dressings on wounds , give medicine , help them take their first steps after an operation , make beds , waken them up , tell them to go to sleep , close their eyes when they die . |
| 5 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 6 | Native Danuese kids — if their parents wanted them to go to school at all , and they were mostly I P big shots — had to study the principles of the malai constitution , bow to the flag , learn the kitchen malay which was the official language throughout the malai islands . |
| 7 | He wanted them to go to college and learn to be businessmen . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell them to go to hell . ’ |
| 9 | Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn ‘ Labour will bring lasting prosperity to Darlington and put people 's talents to use rather than allowing them to go to waste . ’ |
| 10 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 11 | want them to go down School Lane . |
| 12 | Could we qualify that that we do not want them to go down School Lane ? |
| 13 | She had no doubt it would be a very bad idea for them to go in search of Oliver and Cobalt . |
| 14 | To help them think in advance about the issues , members undertook pre-work relating to the quality Improvement Process and its state of progress in their domain . |
| 15 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 16 | Erm naturally enough you would n't expect me to agree with Miss that erm the figures that we 've put forward are against the regeneration strategy . |
| 17 | Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’ |
| 18 | He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water . |
| 19 | Thus , when in G. Cantor 's ( 1955 ) experiment the subjects had to learn over a series of trials a simultaneous discrimination between faces of the sort shown in fig. 5.2 , the task required them to carry over information from one trial to the next . |
| 20 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 21 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 22 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 23 | ‘ You let me stay aboard Water Gypsy — even though you hated the idea . ’ |
| 24 | If you see prepared hyacinths still on sale , do n't expect them to flower at Christmas — it 's too late . |
| 25 | To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous . |
| 26 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 27 | To create an even greater homogeneity we excluded also all those who were doubly incontinent at referral ( since we know that the project found such people very hard to support ; see Chapter Seven ) , and all those whose condition — either mental or physical — was deemed too poor at referral for them to remain at home at all . |
| 28 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 29 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 30 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |