Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 2 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 3 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 4 | The darkness beneath the cover encourages the worms to tunnel close to the inside of the glass so that you will be able to see them clearly in their burrows . |
| 5 | It should be noted that , despite the historical primacy of arithmetic calculation as the raison d'etre for computers , we ought perhaps to see them instead as symbol-processing devices . |
| 6 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 7 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
| 8 | For the birds , otherwise what will they have to see them through till spring ? |
| 9 | Fellowship Afloat have the use of Dawn , a fully-rigged barge , until the end of April but need another vessel to see them through until September . |
| 10 | The components are of magnitudes 4.4 and 5.7 , and since the separation is almost 44 seconds of arc it should be possible to see them individually with × 20 binoculars , but I have never been able to do so with certainty . |
| 11 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 12 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 13 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 14 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 15 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 16 | Er we 'd like to see them out with us to give the company as much harassment . |
| 17 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 18 | BELVILLE : Since she is apt to fall into fits or at least pretend to do so , prepare her to see me tomorrow after dinner in my mother 's closet . |
| 19 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 20 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ A French officer called to see me yesterday about the Hamnett affair . ’ |
| 22 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 23 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 24 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 25 | Deemy was on hand next morning at sunrise to see me off aboard one of the transport planes carrying some 40 young pilots en route to Fairbanks . |
| 26 | To see me too in my deliberate vanishing . |
| 27 | Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season . |
| 28 | Any matters you wish to see me about between now and the end of August , please bring to my attention this week . |
| 29 | It is essential ‘ to appreciate other people 's points of view but to be able to swing them round to yours if necessary ’ , a social skill which must be practised in an extremely wide range of relationships . |
| 30 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |