Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | Went to see them the other week |
| 3 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 4 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 5 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 6 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 7 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 8 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 9 | it 's kind of you all to spare me the time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 11 | The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties . |
| 12 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 13 | You certainly did n't seem to like me the way I was ! ’ |
| 14 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 15 | We also decided that Mike would have to take every third day off to recover , while Christophe continued to follow the chimps , so that he and Mike would know where to find them the following day . |
| 16 | Bann face Garvey at Blaris on Wednesday night ( 8pm ) and Holywood at Olympia next Saturday , needing two outright wins to secure them the honours . |
| 17 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 18 | With no television to distract them the family formed their own orchestra , and often visited jails for services and concerts . |
| 19 | Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett is the latest to find himself the subject of a police inquiry after being reported by the gentle , clean-mouthed souls who inhabit Chelsea 's stands for swearing . |
| 20 | This right to redress which the law confers on the possessor is independent of , and at least as old as , if not older than , the legal protection given to the owner . |
| 21 | The example of Ballymurphy Knitwear is apposite — a community initiative which failed because of inadequate resourcing and government support for the manifest will to work which the women involved displayed . |
| 22 | Inspector Redpath and the ordinary police made hundreds of inquiries on land , but could learn nothing to indicate who the dead man was , or how or where he met his death . |
| 23 | We are delivered onto the twenty-second floor with an incessant warning pong-pong-pong sound which is supposed to inform you the door has opened . |
| 24 | Gartmore investors will have to wait until the end of January to know who the new owners will be although it will almost certainly be an overseas based group . |
| 25 | But in older elite studies ‘ To know who the power wielding individuals are is thought to be sufficient ; it is a secondary matter to inquire into how they use their power . |
| 26 | Well he wanted to know who the Traidcraft person |
| 27 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 28 | We need to know who the members of assemblies actually represent and to what extent they are able to investigate and influence executive actions . |
| 29 | In order to define this further , we need to know who the users are and what are their needs . |
| 30 | We want to know who the boss is . ’ |