Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it stops you having to hit them with a brick . |
| 2 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
| 3 | The governor himself stood waiting to greet them beneath a large , gilt-framed portrait of the Emperor Napoleon . |
| 4 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 5 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 6 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 7 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 8 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 9 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 10 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 11 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 12 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 13 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 14 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 15 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 16 | Right , as soon as we 've done this then we 'll have to go and have a , you can have a bath and mummy can have a shower because I 've got a lady coming to see me about a job . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure . |
| 19 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 20 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 21 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 22 | Come to see me in a fortnight . |
| 23 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 24 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 25 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 26 | But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary . |
| 27 | The Sheikh spoke quietly to his chauffeur , then stepped forward to acknowledge them with a courteous inclination of the head . |
| 28 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 29 | ( That is why we refused to treat them as a separate school . ) |
| 30 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |