Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plans , expected to include cuts in some minister 's budgets , will be revealed in the chancellor 's autumn statement next week . |
| 2 | After work that day , 13 September , I went to the hospital and asked to see Suor Eusebia , the Mother Superior , a truly saintly woman . |
| 3 | I also asked to see Nicola 's father to make sure he was supporting his partner rather than acting against her . |
| 4 | She settled the squirrel evening cape that had belonged to her mother on top of her light summer coat , then walked in and asked to see Mrs O'Dare . |
| 5 | Herbert Cranko asked to see Dulcie Howes and discussed John 's training with her . |
| 6 | He asked to see Laura , but was told that she had no wish to see him . |
| 7 | ‘ When we asked to see test results so we could recommend the products with some confidence we were told that the data was confidential , between Colin Isaacs and Loblaws . ’ |
| 8 | On trying to contact Mr by phone I have on many occasions I was put off to say he was n't available I have also come to the foyer at the bottom asked to see Mr after twenty minutes wait and nobody turned up I decided to retire . |
| 9 | Anyway , the day came when he asked to see Jimmy and me . |
| 10 | Even Moses , when he asked to see God 's glory , was told , ‘ You can not see my face ; for man shall not see me and live ’ ( Exod. |
| 11 | In the Old Testament , Moses asked to see God , only to be told that ‘ no man can see God and live ’ . |
| 12 | Ken asked to see Robert Bolt and demanded the speech to be cut . |
| 13 | A suspicious customs man asked to see Melms swing his 6-iron when he arrived in Britain for a ‘ golfing holiday . ’ |
| 14 | This company subsequently made and sold pultruding machines to many other plastics specialists , both in the UK and overseas . |
| 15 | The General Public Utilities ( GPU ) , which operated the station when a faulty valve badly damaged the reactor core in 1979 , had alleged that Babcock and Wilcox , the manufacturers , failed to issue warnings about known deficiencies in its pressurised water reactors . |
| 16 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 17 | FCA of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to carry out a review of its compliance procedures in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.09 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to warn clients of the extent to which they may be exposed to risk in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 , when the firm gave advice to clients such that , if acted upon , it would result in commission being received , it failed to inform those clients of that position in writing in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.47 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to issue engagement letters in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.60 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to ensure that it had adequate records in accordance with the terms of the Regulation was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 18 | Her face registered gathering anger and her tone a blistering contempt . |
| 19 | Teachers asked to agree weekend and Bank Holiday working |
| 20 | The Whole Curriculum ( 1975 ) and The Practical Curriculum ( 1981 ) both sought to alert teachers to the complex issues that have to be taken into account in whole curriculum planning , but both eschewed the provision of ready-made answers . |
| 21 | The Listing Particulars Directive of 1980 sought to harmonise disclosure requirements , with a view to eventual mutual recognition of listing particulars . |
| 22 | I got to lose weight . |
| 23 | The PDVSA had announced in early December 1990 that it planned to invest $25,000 million between 1991 and 1996 in what would be its biggest development programme in order to raise oil production from just over 2,000,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 3,500,000 bpd by 1995 . |
| 24 | This view has also received support from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and from the environmental directorate of the European Commission , although in the UK government itself the Department of the Environment failed to acknowledge receipt of the FoE reports . |
| 25 | ‘ You asked to go spot on half past two in Makepeace 's class today . |
| 26 | Under the letter of intent , StorageTek agreed to issue 1.3m new shares Amperif shareholders and will set aside about 600,000 shares for warrants and employee stock options , valuing the company at $75.3m at the time of the announcement — but that valuation quickly improved to $83.6m as Storage shares shot up $4.375 to $44 even in after-hours trading on the news , and hovered round there on Friday . |
| 27 | ‘ It was then that I got to realize Ken 's great knowledge of London and of history . |
| 28 | However this made naming names to sell the programme a little difficult : no big stars , no even moderately famous ones . |
| 29 | The prospect that nationalists in Azerbaijan and Armenia might be able to settle the conflict in their republics without reference to the authorities in Moscow was raised on Jan. 24 when leaders of the Azerbaijan Popular Front and the Armenian National Movement agreed to attend peace talks organized by the Latvian Popular Front beginning on Feb. 1 in Riga ( the Latvian capital ) . |
| 30 | First , consider Winder again : the council sought to evict Winder years after the challenged resolution was passed . |