Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 2 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 3 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 4 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 5 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 6 | Acknowledgement of the fact of this fundamental need for a ‘ god ’ , and the need to provide for it in any social order , can be the vital factor in finding a way to ease the sufferings of the world . |
| 7 | I mean , er the thing is if you 've got a name and you want to that 's the time to work for it in that little |
| 8 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 9 | because you know the kind of material we 're recording bad language is n't gon na get an appropriate representation , and he 's not to worry about it on that |
| 10 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 11 | Virginia had crept up to her several times trying to be friendly , but each time the house repelled her advances , do n't you dare to come near me with those nasty creepy little fingers she smiled , preventing the new young tendrils finding a hold on her walls . |
| 12 | She wanted to struggle against him with all her might . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 14 | Commenting on the criticisms , a Scottish Prison Service spokesman said last night : ‘ We do believe in good industrial relations and we certainly hope the unions will be willing to work with us to that end . ’ |
| 15 | We hope that Pat Kennedy will be able to work with us on this and intend to invite the student teachers to participate . |
| 16 | He is not afraid to come before us in this book as a full-blown figure , someone who is quite recognizable ( from earliest school letters and the accounts of Kirkpatrick ) as ‘ the real Lewis ’ but who is also , for the first time , ‘ found ’ as an artistic voice . |
| 17 | You may like to write to him for more details . |
| 18 | When Kevin Woodford , owner and chef of Woodfords restaurant on the Isle Of Man asked viewers of ITV 's This Morning programme to write to him about any culinary problems , the letters simply flooded in . |
| 19 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 20 | I know that the Minister may not be in a position to respond in detail to the comments made on this subject by the hon. Member for Cardiff , North and me , but I hope that he will take them on board and I ask him to write to us on these important local issues . |
| 21 | I have been asked to write to you on this matter because this hazard was drawn to your attention in my letter of 18th April 1991 following the Annual Parish Meeting . |
| 22 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , something happened recently which has prompted me to write to you in this unsolicited way , though God knows we were once . |
| 23 | Within a few years , most Boards felt that the Consultative Councils helped to defuse individual complaints and to present a favourable image to the public , and were willing to defer to them on some matters of general policy of an essentially political or presentational nature , such as priorities in rural electrification or aspects of domestic charging . |
| 24 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 25 | ‘ If I have not lost my cunning , as you have not lost your judgment , it will never be used but to come to you with that which belongs to you . |
| 26 | How sickening of Miss Potts to pounce on her like that . |
| 27 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 28 | I am so pleased with the Elna ; I began making my bedroom curtains some time ago , but had to steel myself and put them away , as the ‘ British Biographies ’ book was exerting great pressure to keep to its schedule and I had to work on it in much of my spare time . |
| 29 | We appeal to our sisters all over the world to stand by us during these very difficult moments in order to help us put an end to oppressive Israeli measures imposed on us and our children which are affecting all human , social , economic , political , intellectual and cultural aspects of our lives . |
| 30 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |