Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A majority of the deputies in parliament rallied to support Pflimlin and reject what they interpreted as de Gaulle 's scarcely concealed blackmail . |
| 2 | I 've just been over to see Madge and guess what ? |
| 3 | He went up to see Ivan and found him asleep . |
| 4 | He was delighted to see Schellenberg and showed it . |
| 5 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 6 | I got to find Marie and get my trousers changed . |
| 7 | Curtis telephoned the seamen 's shelter and asked somebody to find Titch and get him to ring back . |
| 8 | This may be hard for western activists to take , but it is our highest purpose : to know God and to enjoy him forever . |
| 9 | ‘ To know God and to make him known ’ is the motto of the schools . |
| 10 | After a brief glance at Anna , the gipsy hurried off to find Boz and tell him where she was being taken . |
| 11 | She showed immediate enthusiasm and , well , one thing led to another and before long I had invited her and her family to come over to Tintagel to meet Dawn and see her fly . |
| 12 | At this Margery panics , expecting the same fate for herself , and soon begs the old woman to try to find Wilekin and bring him to her . |
| 13 | Ollokot had expected to meet Howard and receive his permission to settle on the Umatilla Agency rather than Lapwai . |
| 14 | One depicts Mary 's first husband , Francis II , three times rushing to welcome her in heaven , and three times finding that he can only embrace a headless body , so that he curses his people ; whereupon the poet exhorts them to forget their own troubles , and unite to destroy England and send its queen to a dreadful death . |
| 15 | ‘ We do not want to destroy Buddha but to christen him . ' |
| 16 | The story of the Passion continues with the statement by the chief priests and Scribes that they were seeking to arrest Jesus and put him to death . |
| 17 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 18 | Clear of the mooring , I felt the tide , not much yet , for the ebb had not long started , but enough to grip Joanna and carry her seawards in a strong , invisible hand . |
| 19 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 20 | It was decided that Julia should go to see Minnie and escort her to Carrie 's house if she wished to come . |
| 21 | Through his competence in sport , he was able to leave Richmond and establish himself as something of a sporting celebrity in Europe and England where , according to Edwin Henderson , he came to know , among others , Lord Byron ( 1949 , p. 16 ) . |
| 22 | She said there was no need to discuss it : she wanted to leave Dynmouth and to leave him , that was all . |
| 23 | EDWINA CURRIE , the former health minister , is to quit Westminster and take her formidably forthright political style to the European Parliament . |
| 24 | I am going to leave STG and start my own practice . ’ |
| 25 | Within the Old Testament itself we can see the beginnings of a move to exalt Jacob and damn his brother . |
| 26 | It was also used by the armies of the eastern emperor , Theodosius , when he marched through the Balkans in AD 394 to overthrow Eugenius and make himself master of both eastern and western empires . |
| 27 | His accusations backed up with the evidence found by Craig would be enough to convict Spencer and send him to prison for some time , once his whereabouts were discovered , for Spencer seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 28 | In 1686 the English envoy to the States General , Bevil Skelton [ q.v. ] , and some of James II 's army officers attempted to kidnap Peyton and bring him back to England , but failed , and the affair caused a diplomatic incident . |
| 29 | Walsh crudely hacked down Kay but referee Peck had to send off the Sunderland player , who tried to grab Walsh and struck him in the face . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're divorced now , apparently , and Paul 's married to someone else , but at the time he was going to divorce Sonia and marry me . |