Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hello , ’ she said hoarsely , pleased to see them at ease with each other again . |
| 2 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 3 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 4 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 5 | The recognition of interests and groups in society , and a concern to see them in relation to government and the development of public policy represented an important breakthrough in the study of British politics . |
| 6 | One day they were told that a police officer wished to see them in connection with the charges already preferred . |
| 7 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 8 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 9 | A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker . |
| 10 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 11 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 12 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with ‘ flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 13 | While there is no doubt that fascist organisations like the National Front have attempted to recruit members from the ranks of football hooligans , there is little to connect them with violence in the game ( Popplewell , 1986:59 ) . |
| 14 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 15 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 16 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 17 | Somebody phoned an ambulance and was told that it would take between an hour and an hour and a half to arrive , so Derek volunteered to drive me to Casualty at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth , forty-five miles away . |
| 18 | In developing a critique of scientism ( which Habermas regards Knowledge and Human Interests to be ) he is not rejecting the epistemological validity of the nomological sciences or the hermeneutic sciences but is trying to orient them in relation to the critical sciences . |
| 19 | The forms need to show the maximum possible numbers to include everyone on role at any time between January and December — please return them at or before the Reunion , but let us know verbally as soon as possible of any major changes — the office likes to give up to date information to enquirers . |
| 20 | In return for the aid , the Bulgarian authorities have agreed to close down the plant 's four 440-megawatt pressurized water reactors , which lack containment facilities to enclose them in case of an accident , as soon as financially possible , perhaps by 1998 . |
| 21 | The Bible tells us how to conduct ourselves in relation to God and to our fellow men . |
| 22 | So do find opportunities to play with your child , and also the time , occasionally , to observe him/her at play with other children . |
| 23 | Vivien had some friends still up at Oxford and had arranged to meet them for lunch at the Randolph Hotel . |
| 24 | I had the great honour of being invited to meet them on behalf of our Society , as our Society is one of the big users of the Resources Centre at the Community College where our Journal is printed etc . |
| 25 | Finally they seemed to accept me as part of the landscape and came within the range of my camera . |
| 26 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 27 | Since the other Nematodirus species do not have such critical hatching requirements , a sudden flush of L3 does not occur and although N. filicollis , N. spathiger and N. helvetianus have all been associated with outbreaks of nematodiriasis in sheep and cattle , it is more common to find them in conjunction with the other trichostrongyles . |
| 28 | The very concentration of attention on female breasts seemed to swell them with pride to melon-like proportion — or disproportion , for they would flatten and disappear just as mysteriously ten years later . |
| 29 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 30 | For a start , the Democratic leadership capitulated rather easily ; the 1980 election results appeared to frighten them into cooperation with the president . |