Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 32 | Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter . |
| 33 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 34 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
| 35 | I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’ |
| 36 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 37 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
| 38 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 39 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
| 40 | Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ? |
| 41 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 42 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |
| 43 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 44 | Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car . |
| 45 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 46 | I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport . |
| 47 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 50 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 51 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
| 52 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 53 | All the crew liked and even obeyed Silver , and he was always pleased to see me in the kitchen , which he kept as clean as a new pin . |
| 54 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 55 | Reception rang through and said there was a lady waiting to see me in the foyer . |
| 56 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 57 | I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately . |
| 58 | Sometimes we shave them , other times we have to sit them in the bath with hot water up to their necks and soak it off . ’ |
| 59 | Perhaps Friday was still a wild man and would try to kill me in the night . |
| 60 | And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable , why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up ? |