Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 2 | And it stops you having to hit them with a brick . |
| 3 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 4 | You do n't even have to hit them off the ground . |
| 5 | Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 7 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 8 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 9 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 10 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 11 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 12 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 13 | Moreover , these activities are interactions between students , and as such may fail to alert them to the choice and ordering of information produced by native speakers . |
| 14 | Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students . |
| 15 | Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team . |
| 18 | As far as heads were concerned , coordinators needed from them a properly negotiated version of the Authority 's job specification , support for the difficult tasks they were required to undertake , and a preparedness to include them within the team of senior staff involved in the development of policy . |
| 19 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 20 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 21 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 22 | Incidentally , if you have any items which you think would be of interest to the Residents , your scribe would be happy to include them in the Newsletter . |
| 23 | When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey . |
| 24 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 28 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 29 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 30 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |