Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 2 | This is the most difficult part of my story for me to tell . |
| 3 | Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’ |
| 4 | Benjamin went down on one knee , tugging at my sleeve for me to follow suit . |
| 5 | ‘ being a person on foot ’ This point is proved by the officer or traffic warden stating in evidence ‘ A man , I now know to be John Smith , stepped from the kerb on the south side of the road and walked towards me in contravention of my signal to him to stop etc . ’ |
| 6 | There 's my authority for you to do that inside the envelope . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't forget my number for her to call you back . ’ |
| 8 | Could I leave my number for her to ring me ? |
| 9 | When he came back , his face was so strained with worry that I felt the sting of another guilt , and I smiled properly ( having just finished with a not-too-terrible pain ) and put out my hand to him to show him I was better . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll promise , ’ I said , offering my hand for her to shake , but she only smiled and replied , ‘ I think I can trust you . ’ |
| 11 | I would like to remind you of my invitation to you to concelebrate at Mark Morris 's Ordination to the Priesthood in St. Paul 's , Shettleston on Sunday at 3.00pm . |
| 12 | I brought my net with me to have a go at 'em dinner time . ’ |
| 13 | Like , for instance , when my Dad , proud of his craft , and his special friendly relations with a good customer , a Mr Watson , was saying : ‘ My goot friend , Mr Vatson , vas so pleased vit his suit — he brought a friend to my house for me to make him von . |
| 14 | And I 'll have my hatred of you to keep my spirits surging in full force . |
| 15 | I can not live without you and I would divide my estate with you to make you mine upon my own terms . |
| 16 | Perhaps she was still too much like Miss Harker and her kind for him to feel comfortable . |
| 17 | It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands . |
| 18 | Every day this week we 've been printing colour pictures of the team captains and their strip for you to paste on to your chart . |
| 19 | Meticulously , she sucked him dry , and stood up to open her mouth for him to see his seed swimming over her pink tongue and gums . |
| 20 | It was only by an act of supreme will that she was finally able to wrench her mouth from his to look up at him with angry , blazing eyes . |
| 21 | Feeling his swift arousal , she dragged her mouth from his to bury it against his warm neck . |
| 22 | And the intensity of her longing for him to press his mouth to her lips , or to be roughly crushed within his embrace , was becoming almost more than she could bear . |
| 23 | It all stemmed from her desire for him to leave UNACO . |
| 24 | Fortunately , she was a greedy horse , so when a helper held a bucket of food under her nose for her to eat while she was being mounted , she was easily distracted . |
| 25 | But she could sense when he was getting her ready for a match and stood like a statue , even dropping her head for him to clip her mane . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't be so fucking patronising , ’ she said , turning her back on me to continue a conversation with Geraldine Porter . |
| 27 | She turns her back to him to look in the mirror beside the cherrywood armoire . |
| 28 | When he let go of her to shut the door her impatience for him to return was almost more than her body could stand . |
| 29 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 30 | It seemed to come from nowhere , it transformed him utterly and it invariably caused her anger against him to feel quite suddenly totally inappropriate . |