Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 2 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 3 | She came to see me a year later , total loss of weight , total short of breath , hardly , she 's struggling to keep body and soul together . |
| 4 | I 've built up my career in an area where women are not generally accepted , and just being seen as your girlfriend is going to lose me a lot of respect ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The only thing I really want is for Alonzo Kettless to carve me an East Suffolk Policeman 's helmet , ’ said Chief Superintendent Rom Rumsby on his retirement . |
| 6 | ‘ Mademoiselle Rossignol , it 's very kind of you to spare me a little of your time … ’ |
| 7 | The band has already shown it can knock out pop tunes a cover of Nancy Sinatra 's Kinky Love , for instance but the audience had to be prepared to indulge them a little . |
| 8 | I had to promise them a press conference , and I thought you 'd rather do it now , old son . |
| 9 | Pye eventually agreed to lease me a small factory in Watford , in which I set up my new company . |
| 10 | We start in ten days and I firmly rely on the goodness of Providence to grant me a safe and prosperous passage . |
| 11 | It was down to the practice ground in the gloom for Jack and myself but I managed to get a message to Sally to meet me an hour later than planned . |
| 12 | Four of the biggest British companies in the waste-to-energy business ( generating power from waste ) have formed a lobby group to persuade the government to grant them a subsidy . |
| 13 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 14 | But you get to know lots of others to talk to and that and on trips to away matches then you get to know them a lot better . |
| 15 | Yes with with the membership being on the doorstep , we do get to know them a lot better . |
| 16 | Manson saw that somehow and decided to write them a letter because he did n't like being called a creep . |
| 17 | I w I was just wondering if you wanted to write them a letter first |
| 18 | ‘ Her business to find me a pretty and agreeable companion , that 's what she said . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Look , it 's terribly kind of you to find me a place to stay , but you must let me give you the money . |
| 20 | I was treated like a servant so I asked Freddie to find me a place of my own . |
| 21 | They showed me a bedspace and Alex went off to find me a tracksuit . |
| 22 | I contacted my social worker and told her that I could not stay at this place and that she would have to find me a Cheshire Home . |
| 23 | I got her through my old friend , Blandly , who , with everyone in Bristol , worked hard to find me a suitable ship when they heard the reason for our voyage — treasure , I mean . |
| 24 | They keep saying they 're going to find me a house and say they 're going to buy me one . |
| 25 | He details his daily struggle : trying to treat patients as he knows he can , yet unable to find them a hospital bed or specialist referral . |
| 26 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 27 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 28 | Hungary has appealed to foreign zoos to find them a home . |
| 29 | The rather provocative title of their single having failed to garner them an interview with CNN , they have threatened to kill my family if the record is n't reviewed here . |
| 30 | Again , the Germans did better , 22% being prepared to trust them a great deal . |