Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tipped the commissionaire , then slid in to sit beside her . |
| 2 | Throughout the day , a steady stream of East Germans came along to sit in it , admire it , wonder at it , touch it — the latest Trabant 601 de-luxe , that is . |
| 3 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 4 | You ca n't get anybody to come down to see about it . |
| 5 | He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them . |
| 6 | Hearing about Rodney 's book has reminded me that I 've got to get down to work on mine . ’ |
| 7 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 8 | The nicest thing about my dad is that he often takes me along to work with him . |
| 9 | For a moment — then the skylight in the beamed roof was flung up , and Frankenstein 's Adam came leaping down to stand before me in his wrath ! |
| 10 | Paul and Nasey went in to work for you , so they got a wage from the start . ’ |
| 11 | Before she could jerk herself out of her shocked paralysis , he had angled his head and driven his ruthless , demanding lips down to collide with hers in an explosion of sensation . |
| 12 | He settled down to sort through them . |
| 13 | ‘ Last term we had the dispenser in to talk to them . ’ |
| 14 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 15 | He was the last to leave the sitting-room , calculating that the parents of boarders would talk to the regular teachers before coming along to talk to him . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been trying to remember , ever since one of your men telephoned to say somebody would be along to talk to me . |
| 17 | Lorimer uttered a disparaging sound , leaning down to talk to her , hanging onto the ivy with one hand . |
| 18 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 19 | When we move in here , we get this guy come along to look at it , he say well this machine the er the Germans erm they 've really the pump is th is really easy to go , and so I can change your pump for you but l in your washing machine washing machine . |
| 20 | They all come in to look for it . |
| 21 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 22 | I mean they must find they must find it expensive because I mean if they 're keeping that house on they have to have somebody going in to look at it , wo n't they ? |
| 23 | Anne had continued to visit the Misses Dolan frequently even after Margaret had moved in to look after them , and been very happy to see her old friends so well cared for and so delighted with Margaret 's lively little girl . |
| 24 | Perhaps I could suggest her getting someone in to look after him and she could come for half time . |
| 25 | Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me . |
| 26 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 27 | He stuck out his tongue and squinted down to look at it . |
| 28 | ‘ But you had to squat down to look at it . |
| 29 | I was just comin' down to look for you . ’ |
| 30 | Mummy has bought daddy some nice chocolates to eat and we 're going to have a special dinner and then next Saturday Nanna Nanna and Del are coming down to look after you |