Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it stops you having to hit them with a brick . |
| 2 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
| 3 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 4 | ‘ And they play the pipes , just as the Arab plays them with a bag holding air , ’ I added . |
| 5 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 6 | The governor himself stood waiting to greet them beneath a large , gilt-framed portrait of the Emperor Napoleon . |
| 7 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 8 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 9 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 10 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 11 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 12 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 13 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 14 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 15 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 16 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 17 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 18 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 19 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 20 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 21 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 22 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 23 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 24 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 25 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 26 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 27 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 28 | Right , as soon as we 've done this then we 'll have to go and have a , you can have a bath and mummy can have a shower because I 've got a lady coming to see me about a job . |
| 29 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 30 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |