Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 2 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 3 | Thus , if you want to study the use of the word ‘ true ’ in Arthur Hugh Clough , rather than generate a massive concordance containing all the words in Clough 's poems , and then leafing through it to find the word ‘ true ’ , you use the concordance package commands to generate a concordance which contains all and only the uses of ‘ true ’ . |
| 4 | The Glebe School pupil is very fond of dogs and PC John Baines , who is involved with the ward 's Dreams Come True charity , arranged for her to spend the day with members of the police dog section . |
| 5 | To write a feature story on the Inaugural First Flight it was arranged for me to join the westbound plane at Moose Jaw and telegraph back the story from Calgary . |
| 6 | Taylor , however , is hoping that ‘ Gazza ’ may not need to wear the protective covering on his face against the Poles and has arranged for him to visit the surgeon who performed the original operation to check on his recovery so far . |
| 7 | The day before Farnham , Michael had arranged for us to use the Dean Street Synagogue , which has a huge , parquet-floored hall in the basement . |
| 8 | I have therefore arranged for us to view the premises in Northumberland Avenue the day after tomorrow , on your next visit to London . |
| 9 | , an avid fan and greyhound owner arranged for us to have the Board Room with the luxury of our own bar , video screens and boxes for viewing each of the 12 races . |
| 10 | it will need for him to phone the firm then because he got me direct |
| 11 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 12 | ‘ Gina — I think the time has come for me to set the record straight about Lotta and myself . |
| 13 | They were in a minority but were expected between them to meet the sexual needs of the men . |
| 14 | ‘ Tomorrow I would like you to come with me to see the laibon . |
| 15 | In consequence of my suggestion , Harold Wilson asked Aitken and myself to dine with him to discuss the matter and to my amazement Max Aitken said that he would go , but only if I accompanied him . |
| 16 | He contests that petty commodity production is a separate mode of production from the capitalist one , but that it articulates with it to facilitate the expanded reproduction of the capitalist mode ( Quijano 1974 ) . |
| 17 | So I 'm hoping to work with you to help the are in terms of the Liberal Democrat membership and activism , in a general sense , that can be used later . |
| 18 | Given the establishment of this joint working party , it would appear both reasonable and sensible for the APB 's Going Concern Task Force to work with it to establish the necessary guidance on what disclosures should be made , and then to incorporate it . |
| 19 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 20 | And yet , even as determination rose within her to right the wrongs that had been done her father and to make the name of Thomas Grenfell respected again in Swansea , she was trembling with fear . |
| 21 | I have been asked to write to you to express the grave concern of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council about the proposed sale of the piece of land adjacent to Wyresdale Crescent Scorton by Wyre Borough Council Land and Properties Sub-Committee . |
| 22 | Preferring to carry only a light rifle , such as a .22 , and ammunition , but unburdened by other supplies , even water , they chase goats from about 7 am until noon , when they have to quit for the day Sometimes they will put down their guns and stalk a goat , leaping on it to deliver the final coup de grace with a knife . |
| 23 | I 'm sure the council do a lot of good work and it should n't fall to me to propagate the views of the monopolistic , right-wing press . |
| 24 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 25 | The production of an interesting and informative Journal is going to depend largely on you , the Members , providing items of news , reminiscences etc and we do appeal to you to contact the joint Editors with any material suitable for inclusion in future issues . |
| 26 | So unless your client lives and works a considerable distance from your office , or is unwell , it 's best for your client to come to you to execute the documents . |
| 27 | The labour-intensive car-cleaning method involves either my supervising them carefully or running the risk of the paintwork being scratched by sponges full of grit because they have been dropped in the gutter , and the car bonnet dented by the smallest child climbing on it to reach the windscreen . |
| 28 | We all want to hear our distinguished visitor who has come to us to make the final arrangements with those going to Eretz — and with any others who might want to go , too ; there 's still plenty of time , it 's never too late . |
| 29 | It never occurred to her to doubt the warrior 's word . |
| 30 | The soldiers grew uneasy and grumbled amongst themselves so Mandeville shouted at them to begin the search . |