Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 2 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 3 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 4 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 5 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 7 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 8 | Once they 've joined in the Pirates Club , you 'll be lucky to see them at all , as they go through their paces for the junior cabaret ( where a lot of hidden young talent come to light ) , or as they enjoy the treasure hunts and fancy dress parties . |
| 9 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 10 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 11 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 12 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 14 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 15 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 16 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've sweated blood to get him to agree to see me at all . |
| 18 | Very good of you to see me at such short notice . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 21 | It would be very comfortable , but they 'd be surprised to see me like that at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . ’ |
| 22 | He thought to himself ‘ I do n't want him to see me like this ’ . |
| 23 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 24 | Notation or codes are appended to a sequence of topics in order to arrange them in some clearly defined order . |
| 25 | ‘ And now you 're going to kill me with that ? |
| 26 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 27 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 28 | Waterlife Research Industries have kindly replaced the test kit , even though they were not at fault and I would like to thank them for this . |
| 29 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 30 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |