Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I cared about us making love , ’ he said , raking both hands back through his thick dark hair and looking up at her . |
| 2 | The GPB consequently arranged for her to receive instruction from a number of their members ' clients , and during her two-week stay , she travelled across the country visiting — among others — a teddy bear factory , saddlery , hospital craft store , and a babies ' clothes shop . |
| 3 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 4 | To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers . |
| 5 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 6 | During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 . |
| 7 | This proved quite a successful intiative and was an inexpensive exercise because Air Vice-Marshal Bill Bailey kindly arranged for us to make use of the recording facilities at Services Sound & Vision Corporation . |
| 8 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 9 | I 've arranged for you to take Miss P. ’ |
| 10 | Well … we ( England ) are all rooting for you to beat Holland in the last game : - ) |
| 11 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |
| 12 | ‘ People will be clamouring for me to fight Eubank . ’ |
| 13 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 14 | It seems likely that when he received these papers , Palmerston , to forestall those critics who said that he was out of touch with current architectural ideas , instructed Donaldson to arrange for him to meet Lamb and other architects who agreed with his views . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you hear me ? she urged , dying for him to get cross . |
| 16 | They also give the Commissioners power to remove the person appointed and provide for him to make reports to the Commissioners . |
| 17 | In practice R may have a value comparable to atomic dimensions , say about I Ångström unit . |
| 18 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 19 | Super students from Our Lady and St Patrick 's College , Knock between them achieved grade As in the recent |
| 20 | But such is Rachael 's devotion to Stephen that when his wife , an alcoholic from whom he has parted company , appears at his lodgings , ill and incapable , Rachael looks after her to spare Blackpool the task of doing so . |
| 21 | Alejandro shouted after her to do turns at the canter . |
| 22 | Almost certainly it would n't approve of you shooting Auntie Flo . |
| 23 | FA yesterday and it looks like me getting tickets from them is the same chance like the famous snowball in hell — i might settle for a new video player instead — in fact i still have got almost all of WC'90 on video — pictures from — all — games — and complete games from the 1/8 finals and onwards — including the England-Kamerun game which is quite a favorite . |
| 24 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 25 | A series which is broadcast each week has a number of features designed into it to help viewers recognise " their " programme and encourage them to watch it at the same time every week . |
| 26 | It 's nearly ten to six are you going to come with me to get Christopher Tim or are you staying with grandma ? |
| 27 | Jezrael felt her heart swell with her smothered rage . |
| 28 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 29 | Clergy can then ‘ do what lies within them to bring people to know God . ’ |
| 30 | Many of their rows had come from him volunteering Beth to do things . |