Example sentences of "to [pron] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 2 | The centre-left Social Democrat Party of Brazil ( PSDB ) and other opposition parties resisted Collor 's overtures to them to join a coalition government . |
| 3 | And due to them taking a lot of the trees do you see , from there , and opened the wind in do you see . |
| 4 | But I do not think it was open to them to state a sum constituting the … deficit and then say in effect they were not sure if the sum was correct . |
| 5 | Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence . |
| 6 | Nicholson motioned to them to take a seat . |
| 7 | I , I 've not been near one , I would n't know but you have to stand next to them to get an effect , to kn know how big they are . |
| 8 | erm then erm what I 'll do I 'll pick it up next week and that will obviously show you a bit more about Abbey Life and any , any of your friends or anybody you think might , might like to look at the video erm you know just to give them an insight , people you mentioned erm to me that you perhaps know you 'd like to pass the video on to them to have a look erm and if er er you 've got my number and if you want to ring me then I can get some more videos if you think other people might be interested I 'm quite happy to pass them on , on to you as well , okay ? |
| 9 | Reflecting in 1968 on the difference between him and Communists of the older generation , he said : ‘ They seem to approach reality by way of certain abstract categories , which seem to them to have a lot of meaning and to reflect concrete experience … ; [ whereas ] members of my generation tend to use as a starting point reality as it exists at the moment , they form general concepts on the basis of this reality and they disregard categories which seem to have lost their relevance and to function more as incantations than as concepts . ’ |
| 10 | In a unit where most of the people were drug abusers it would not exactly endear Lizzy to them to have a mother who was a ‘ filth ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I agree , ’ Hari seemed ill at ease , ‘ I would like to help but I 'm all right here , I 've got people working for me , see I owe it to them to make a success of my own business . |
| 12 | The other area we that we explored in some depth was er whether the the library room could be combined to library or to library , but we 've left it to them to make a decision but they appear to have so decided that there is a mixed pattern emerged . |
| 13 | With its egalitarian tradition of periodic redistribution of the land it seemed to them to provide a basis on which Russia could bypass capitalism and make a direct transition to socialism . |
| 14 | In the first of four topics , Father Harry Stratton , parish priest of St Alban 's , Macclesfield , spoke of the development in the Church 's teaching on baptism , seen as a movement away from the congregation being virtually spectators at the liturgy , to them becoming a parish community worshipping together . |
| 15 | It may take only twenty minutes or as long as two hours before they find the monkeys and are sufficiently close to them to launch an attack . |
| 16 | Neither of them possessed a credit card , and it did not occur to them to offer a cheque . |
| 17 | The Cubists had gained new recruits also , but the impact of the Orphist section caused Salmon to write , ‘ Orphism and Simultanism seem to me to represent a threat to that sense of structure so miraculously rediscovered ’ . |
| 18 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 19 | A passenger sitting next to me flung a coin into the river with great enthusiasm . |
| 20 | The man next to me looked a touch apprehensive . |
| 21 | It may be helpful to me to put a copy of that lecture in the Library . |
| 22 | It was in 1972 , after I had trekked to and from Rhodesia on several occasions , and the mission in which I was involved appeared to be a triumphant success , that I received a letter from Ted Heath , who asked whether it would be acceptable to me to receive a CH ( Companion of Honour ) . |
| 23 | I live in Scarborough , and some time ago enquired about leisure art classes ; this led to me taking an interview for a full-time art and design course , which I have been accepted for . |
| 24 | Once again my sincere apologies for my absence , as I explained last September , this weekend is my mother 's 80th birthday and it falls to me to host a celebration and to entertain friends and relatives during the weekend . |
| 25 | Listen to me have a go ! |
| 26 | This submission appears to me to suggest a way of making more effective proceedings in Parliament by allowing the court to consider what has been said in Parliament as an aid to resolving an ambiguity which may well have become apparent only as a result of the attempt to apply the enacted words to a particular case . |
| 27 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 28 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 29 | It seems to me to indicate a failure on the part of the union activists to understand that by ‘ withdrawing good will ’ , the state education service has lost much of the respect so painstakingly built up by successive generations of teachers . |
| 30 | So I reckon that it 's up to me to get a job and pay for Dad 's medical care . ’ |