Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Huddlestons of Millom were active on Gloucester 's behalf throughout Cumbria , but their own land led them to look rather to north Lancashire , where they had dealings with the Harringtons . |
| 2 | The Huddlestons of Millom were active on Gloucester 's behalf throughout Cumbria , but their own land led them to look rather to north Lancashire , where they had dealings with the Harringtons . |
| 3 | The aim was to draw together good practice and make recommendations to enable organisations to manage secondments effectively and provide secondees with the support necessary to enable them to contribute fully to their new jobs and to their old , once they returned . |
| 4 | The aim was to draw together good practice and make recommendations to enable organisations manage secondment effectively and provide secondees with the support necessary to enable them to contribute fully to their new jobs and to their old , once they returned . |
| 5 | ‘ He asked me to get close to her and try to find out . |
| 6 | She asked me to come straight to you . |
| 7 | Dad got me to read aloud to him and then offered me a barley sugar . |
| 8 | Knowing that made me feel closer to Steffi and the other players . |
| 9 | I was awake last night and suddenly remembered the time you made me rise early to flight the duck . |
| 10 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 11 | Mr Jaggers clearly thought Joe was a fool for refusing money , and left the house , reminding me to go straight to his office in London in a week 's time . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's true , ’ he agreed , and Anne who had joined them said consolingly to Sarah , ‘ Maybe the war will be over soon anyway , and Terry will see Mum . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do you think I look forward to this , Sir John ? |
| 14 | I said to Cheryl please do n't go and invite to come to yours for dinner now and because insult us cos we 're not without him cos I 'm prepared to go I look forward to that . |
| 15 | As I say when you become a councillor you do not do it for money , I mean I think probably to be a better reason to become a councillor these days . |
| 16 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 17 | I found I had always to be looking at her feet . |
| 18 | ‘ I want ye to go upstairs to yer daughter , ’ he said in a low , hard voice , ‘ and ask her to answer one question . |
| 19 | It is a precision which opens new possibilities in adding emphasis to any roof , enabling you to add immeasurably to every roofing effect . |
| 20 | That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you . |
| 21 | THEY found him clinging helplessly to his mother 's corpse . |
| 22 | His bosses , the directors , say they look forward to next year , when they expect new business to increase . |
| 23 | I expect it comes naturally to you , being in the business so to speak . |
| 24 | Only once has he come close to losing his rag , when publicly embarrassed by his press secretary , Julie Hall , as she admitted giving the first name of the little girl at the centre of the health election broadcast row to the press . |
| 25 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 26 | When we arrived at her house , Eva put her hand on my shoulder and told me to go upstairs to Charlie . |
| 27 | He did understand , and told me to stay close to him and he would take me to the YWCA . |
| 28 | The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August pushed prices up to $413 an ounce although peace initiatives at the end of August [ see p. 37695 ] caused them to fall again to around $382 an ounce . |
| 29 | Stand up , stretch your arms above your head , then let them fall loosely to your sides . |
| 30 | She opened her long arms and let them fall gently to her sides again with another smile , gesturing to a couch and taking a seat herself nearby . |