Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what a sight it was to see them day after day , night after night , huddled in corners , crowded around drinks machines , arguing and agreeing , debating and disclaiming . |
| 2 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 3 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 4 | Counselling was a completely new world to me and although in the past it had been suggested that to combat my periods of depression I might well think of having psychoanalysis , I am now glad I resisted . |
| 5 | Would you like me to wear my dogcollar in court ? ’ |
| 6 | It was still early morning and , having been unable to confirm my flight by phone ( surprise , surprise ) , I was relieved to be here in good time . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , but if you did n't , why bother to confirm my appointment in writing and fly me out first-class ? |
| 8 | In September 1938 , when I was sixteen , I went back to my native country for a holiday ; partly because 1 wanted to see my friends in štanjel , and partly so that I could visit my uncles , aunts and cousins on my mother 's side of the family in Mavhinje . |
| 9 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 10 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 11 | At least try to see my point of view . ’ |
| 12 | We talked for many weeks , and gradually he genuinely came to see my point of view and to agree that it made sense . |
| 13 | I hope they will be able to see my point of view just as I will be open to their views and opinions about this issue . |
| 14 | Firstly , I used AppleShare to connect my Powerbook to Design Publications ' Quadra in Torquay . |
| 15 | Mum encourages me to like my face without make-up . |
| 16 | ‘ But it probably will surprise you to hear that I managed to resist the temptation to indulge my talent for marriage-wrecking and confined myself to one already divorced man and one bachelor . ’ |
| 17 | A sergeant appears from what a plate beside the door indicates is the dentist 's and I go up to him and tell him my name and that I 've been told to report my movements by Detective Inspector McDunn . |
| 18 | Now I 'm sewing full-time with a small business to bolster my sense of self . ’ |
| 19 | You refused to accept my offer of dinner , but now that we are here you are n't going to refuse to eat with me ? ’ |
| 20 | But they were kind : the man roused himself at my request to hammer a protruding nail in my shoe that had caused me discomfort , the woman interrupted her knitting to refill my pot of tea and make sure the meal was to my liking . |
| 21 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 22 | However hard I work and struggle for the future there are ever snares to catch me and sometimes I see no end to it and think myself doomed to pass my days in toil and nothing else . |
| 23 | Aunt Lilian had invented the Game when I was at school in order to increase my knowledge of world events and give me a sense of history . |
| 24 | I 'm more decisive , but I 'm also less confident because whereas before I used to hide my lack of confidence behind a kind of arrogance and bravado , now I 'm not afraid to show my weaknesses . |
| 25 | There were no sudden changes in direction even though employers and government began to modify their attitudes towards trade unions in such a way as to encourage negotiations at the highest level . |
| 26 | ( I doubt that men are reading magazines which counsel them to modify their style in order ‘ to communicate better with all the women in your life ’ ! ) |
| 27 | The reason why caterwauling is associated with rutting is because it is most common then , the scent of the female on heat attracting males from far and wide and bringing them uncomfortably close together , so that they feel unusually inclined to vent their feelings of hostility towards one another . |
| 28 | Immediately inside the tangle of bushes Nathaniel Sherman was astonished to find himself face to face with the massive standing bulk of the black seladang bull . |
| 29 | The devils urged that she should kill herself and be damned with them in Hell , and it was evidently to contain her attempts at suicide that she was ‘ bound and kept with strength day and night ’ ; even then she ‘ rived the skin on her body against her heart with her nails most spitefully ’ . |
| 30 | Swinging her boots up on to the Indian bedspread to indicate her lack of concern . |