Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 3 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 4 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
| 5 | When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa . |
| 6 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 7 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 8 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 9 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 10 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 11 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 12 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 13 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 14 | Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season . |
| 15 | The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States . |
| 16 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 17 | They might actually find it impossible to conceive of themselves without the slaves or serfs who defined their status . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , thank you , ’ she replied shortly , intending to slip past him to the treatment area to begin preparing for the first of the morning 's patients . |
| 19 | The party rejoined the coalition in 1921 in order to work against it from the inside . |
| 20 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 21 | ‘ It would n't be wise to communicate with him in the usual way while he 's there . ’ |
| 22 | clients are , are tapped into it , and we should be able to communicate with them at the press of a button . |
| 23 | Fortunately , she was petite and thin , almost to the point of emaciation , but all the same Sabine needed all her strength to struggle with her to the grass on the opposite side of the road . |
| 24 | Ada Thompson who knew Herbert Varley who was married to a Jewish girl , asked Daisy , one dank and drizzling November afternoon two years ago , to come with her to the Mandelbaums ' . |
| 25 | So she asked Curtis and Mrs Files — who had been watching Delia Sutherland 's reaction from the service door — to come with her into the morning room where she explained the situation as frankly as possible . |
| 26 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 27 | It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away . |
| 28 | D' you reckon mom will agree to come with us on the skiing ? |
| 29 | ‘ Signor Skof , we would like you to come with us to the barracks to answer some questions , ’ one of them said ; and the other : ‘ You will be allowed home this afternoon . ’ |
| 30 | He replied on August 15 , suggesting that the SMG 's Balwinder Gill telephone the community liaison officer , adding ‘ should you wish to meet with me in the meantime , again this can be arranged . ’ |