Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |
| 2 | I have written about them to show that spiritual journeys and beliefs are legitimate , fruitful ways of exploring the world and to encourage writers to go ahead with this kind of exploration if they so wish . |
| 3 | The Homunculi do not allow anyone to see the oracle unless invited.The adventurers will need to keep their wits about them to get past these pests . |
| 4 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 5 | Yeah , he had to borrow the money off me to do that |
| 6 | I will have to keep my wits about me to get my team selections , and my substitutes , right . |
| 7 | Go through them to see which might be relevant to your own situation . |
| 8 | That at the very least gives me the opportunity er to at very least glance through , I do n't know how long they 're going to be of course , but at very least glance through them to see what I need to see , to see if there 's any which is self-evidently requiring further comment , or further site visit , and er I can then give the Councils a further two weeks in which to respond to that . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century the name ‘ essential hypertension ’ was invented , meaning that in some patients a rise in blood pressure is a protective mechanism , essential in order to overcome narrowing of the arteries and force blood through them to reach vital organs . |
| 10 | The ferns and undergrowth met almost waist-high across the path , and she had to push her way through them to reach her goal . |
| 11 | Zeolite and many of the resins become fully charged and must be soaked in salt water , or better still have a steady trickle of salt water running to waste through them to recharge them . |
| 12 | It visited chiefs , and worked through them to find out about local resources , tools , apprenticeship patterns and market locations . |
| 13 | In houses for heating it 's conceivable that you could have a huge hot water store in the basement , or a store made up of round pebbles , heated by hot air , which you could then use by circulating cool air through them to produce hot air at other times . |
| 14 | Parish council clerk Herbert Booty said gipsies had knocked down 200 saplings on the county council-owned land by driving through them to get onto the land . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think there have been any new developments since yesterday morning , but I 'll run through them to keep you up to date . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't mind Come Up and See Me being released ; God willing it will go high enough for them to invite me on Top Of The Pops ! |
| 17 | Having done this … what was more natural than for them to invite the sister institution , with its professedly similar aims , to join them ? |
| 18 | It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation . |
| 19 | So , is it in order for them to mug or murder Mr Symon and , if not , what do we do to protect him ? |
| 20 | Thus in their reply in 1897 to a memorial from the men asking for a 50-hour week , the Edinburgh Master Printers " Association ( MPA ) pleaded that competition was too intense for them to agree : " The great bulk of printing now done in Edinburgh is for London publishers . |
| 21 | It would clearly be in their interests for them to agree to bid £10 an acre for one-half the acreage each . |
| 22 | We are still waiting for them to agree or not to that . |
| 23 | erm does n't given any more details than that , but it 's red brick to local authority approval , so they 're going to submit it to them for them to agree that it fits in . |
| 24 | This is because it is second nature for them to pose their questions at the level of the individual organism . |
| 25 | I roll the glass ball round in my hand a bit , waiting for them to say summat . |
| 26 | Easy for them to say . |
| 27 | Why is it so important for them to say such things ? |
| 28 | For them to say either of these records sounds like The Stones or The Faces is insane . |
| 29 | It 's easy for them to say , ‘ Okay , put this in the computer and we 'll find someone to sing it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Local authorities have an independent responsibility from 1 April and it is less than satisfactory for them to say they will pay the same rates as central government , ’ he said . |