Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 2 | Promises quite often concern the actions of others : to consent to be governed by another is to promise to obey him ; to consent to his joining the expedition is to promise to provide him with the facilities and the help made available to members of the expedition . |
| 3 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 4 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 5 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
| 6 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 7 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 8 | ‘ Strangely enough , ’ Ockleton had said , Harry having to strain to hear him amidst the noise and smoke as closing time drew near , ‘ Rex was the one who seemed to interest Heather the most . |
| 9 | Luke 's voice was so low that she had to strain to hear it above the noisy chatter of the birds , the rustle of the breeze in the trees . |
| 10 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 11 | The little waves ‘ strike ’ the shore , the high part of an advancing wave is a ‘ hump ’ ; looking to another portion of creation , it would surely be better , but impossible , just to ‘ observe ’ the behaviour of migrating starlings than to try to understand it through the conflicting ‘ explanations ’ that have been proposed for it . |
| 12 | ‘ She cross because she have to come fetch me from the police station . |
| 13 | European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee . |
| 14 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
| 15 | although they know that it costs twice as much to try to collect it as the amount that they actually collect . |
| 16 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 17 | When all is said and done , the attraction of earning a living playing a sport you enjoy is a strong one and it is not hard to understand why some players have to try to make it on the Tour . |
| 18 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 19 | Suzy , 25 , talked to her new client by phone and arranged to meet to show him around the luxurious £130,000 property in Fulham , west London . |
| 20 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 21 | Gwenellen thought neither , as if Marcus tonight was anything like Marcus last night Old Red would be far too busy to remember meeting me in the subway . |
| 22 | ‘ And then having to remember to unearth them before the day ! |
| 23 | British Waterways and the Ministry of Agriculture have been approached by fishing clubs in the region to help rid them of the menace which is depleting fish stocks in the canal . |
| 24 | In a drift away from the Auld Alliance , leading magnates appealed to the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth of England to help rid them of the French . |
| 25 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
| 26 | better than not being able to afford to do it at the moment , |
| 27 | By creating and maintaining institutions that deny feelings of warmth and tenderness , by encouraging male competitive and aggressive styles of human encounter , prisons are killing off in prisoners those qualities most likely to help re-establish them in the community . |
| 28 | Players were encouraged to exaggerate the portamento and vibrato features of their instruments to help distinguish them from the wind sections ( 11 ) . |
| 29 | We look at some of the models available to help point you in the right direction |
| 30 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |