Example sentences of "to visit [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , if I ca n't come here , Linton can come to visit me at the Grange , ’ suggested Cathy happily .
2 He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day .
3 She was supposed to have the power of healing stomach aches , and people used to visit her during the hours of the siesta so that no one would know .
4 Mary had been brought up with her story which , for many in the valley — except her own generation , increasingly unable to visit her on the heights she chose for her seclusion — had gone cold long ago .
5 In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers .
6 He has a brother in Devon and a sister in Manchester and his mother travels from Exeter twice a year to visit him at the centre where she attends the pujas the daily services .
7 An order may require the child to allow the supervisor to visit him at the place where he is living ( para 8(1) ( b ) ) .
8 Faustus 's fate is also made clearer by the addition of a scene before the final chorus where the scholars come to visit him on the morning after his final hour and find his body torn in pieces ( V , iii , 1–19 ) .
9 I always intended to visit him after the war , but you know how it is : things were difficult , I was confoundedly busy at the University , I did n't particularly want to see Viola again though you 've got to swallow the pill with the jam , have n't you , and there was no particular reason why I should n't see her again .
10 The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic .
11 She lived in Paris , he at Croisset ; he would n't come to the capital , she was n't allowed to visit him in the country .
12 By April 1924 the head of every firm involved had received from Buckingham Palace a signed letter in Queen Mary 's own hand describing the Dolls ' House as ‘ the most perfect present that anyone could receive ’ , and an invitation to visit it at the Palace of Arts .
13 Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner .
14 Her forehead shines whitely above the dark glasses ; she has not been well but the resting home has allowed her to visit us for the afternoon .
15 ‘ We would also like former pupils of the school , both locally and from more distant parts , to visit us during the celebrations , he said .
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