Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it stops you having to hit them with a brick . |
| 2 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 3 | ‘ And they play the pipes , just as the Arab plays them with a bag holding air , ’ I added . |
| 4 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 7 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 8 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 9 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 10 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 11 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 21 | Come to see me in a fortnight . |
| 22 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 23 | The EC can neither reverse current trends nor bring them to a halt . |
| 24 | At one time , the officers if they saw the girls soliciting , used to arrest them , bring them to a police station , they 're finger print , photographed and dealt with . |
| 25 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 26 | ‘ Damn it , Kathleen , do n't you go using me as a shield . |
| 27 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 29 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 30 | GDA , as part of the SEN Scottish Defence Initiative , is pro-actively addressing the needs of defence dependent companies by assisting them in a programme of new market identification and diversification . |