Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The villa was run to support everyone who lived there , but as well as this , surplus products , especially wool and grain , were traded with other parts of Britain and with provinces all over the Roman Empire . |
| 2 | Of course , by the time someone comes to see me they have usually made up their mind that hypnosis will be beneficial for them and so this is not a situation I encounter very often . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , Nicky Scott Wilson , but if you want to see me you 'd better make proper arrangements . ’ |
| 4 | If you need to see me you know where I 'm to be found . |
| 5 | The Media Unit would like to thank everyone who carried out radio and press interviews about Grandparents Day . |
| 6 | If Uncle had n't been there to support me I do not know what would have become of me . |
| 7 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |
| 8 | If I were planning a home visit to see someone I did n't already know , I 'd go with another colleague . ’ |
| 9 | She turned and was relieved to see someone who bore absolutely no resemblance to the man she had described to Roger and Caroline . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's hard to see someone you love so much fading . |
| 11 | learn to spell them you do n't give them an autograph . |
| 12 | But the thing is , they 're going to meet someone who does n't run away . |
| 13 | ‘ We came to meet someone who has n't turned up . |
| 14 | But you 'd be hard pressed to find someone who takes as much time and care with a musical instrument as Tony Zemaitis . |
| 15 | Actually I 'm trying to find more writers who are around now , but it 's hard to find someone who does n't use all the songs for themselves . ’ |
| 16 | After being in The Birthday Party , where everybody wanted their part to be as loud as is humanly possible , it 's quite refreshing to find someone who does n't even care if he 's on the record or not ! ’ |
| 17 | As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before . |
| 18 | ‘ The guy was n't a burglar , he was coming here because he used to know someone who lived here before . ’ |
| 19 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 20 | There is something my service needs to know which you do n't want us to . |
| 21 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 22 | There are many techniques of distraction and it is very important that you practice with different methods to discover which one works best for you . |
| 23 | It 's proving very difficult raising money for the sea wall because everybody likes to contribute towards buying something new but not so many like to repair something you have already got . |
| 24 | She made for the door , but as perforce she had to pass him he put out a hand and caught her by the wrist . |
| 25 | When I first met Alfred I did n't like him very much , because of his hair and his clothes and the fact that he did n't have a steady job , but now I 've got to know him he does n't seem too bad . |
| 26 | The police are warning people who live on their own not to trust anyone who turns up at their door , unless they can prove who they are : |
| 27 | ‘ A good assistant studies her boss , almost to the extent of developing psychic powers to indicate what he wants almost before he himself knows . ’ |
| 28 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 29 | He thought she was too sophisticated not to know what she had there , but he was surprised all the same . |
| 30 | I 'm interested to know what you get up to . ’ |