Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 2 | He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante . |
| 3 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 4 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 5 | In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig . |
| 6 | During the early months of 1990 Avril 's response to the growing opposition had included attempts to suppress it through the imposition in January of a " state of siege " , followed by efforts to defuse it through the promise of free elections [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 7 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 8 | The present owner has plans to convert it to a travelling theatre . |
| 9 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 10 | But now the Forestry Commission has decided to end the uncertainty by announcing plans to turn it into a wood . |
| 11 | It has sunscreens to protect you from the sun 's harmful rays , and a unique bio-collagen complex to nourish and moisturise . |
| 12 | She did n't need Maggie to remind her of the odds against a baby 's survival in the alleys , and she loved this one enough to make the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 13 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 14 | She did not need Jarvis to tell her of the phenomenon of the shivering platform at West Hampstead as a train approaches , that and the singing of the rails , because she was accustomed to the point of no longer noticing it . |
| 15 | The band spent a fortune on chrysanthemums , employing people to distribute them at every gig . |
| 16 | But now the firm which employs 150 people in Belle Vale Road , Gateacre , wants people to see it as a classy and versatile product . |
| 17 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 18 | The result was that the economy was in the grip of a crisis which could only be resolved by adopting measures to free it from the constraints of autarchy . |
| 19 | He does not claim to offer us some ‘ truth ’ separable from himself , but challenges men to recognise him as the one who is the truth , and the truth into which we too are brought out of our own untruthfulness when we recognise who he is . |
| 20 | He did n't need Fraser to tell him about the brother and sister . |
| 21 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 22 | History students who appear to be confused about why they are studying the subject do little to encourage others to study it as a full GCSE subject or at an advanced level . |
| 23 | However , he is aware that he can seek to find time to raise it in the House . |
| 24 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
| 25 | Her friend Angela , who worked for Tiller every year in pantomime , asked Jane to accompany her to the stage door of the Hippodrome Theatre , Manchester , to pick up a contract . |
| 26 | The driver was given directions to take her to the doctor that Julius had contacted . |
| 27 | They hired dragomans to escort them round the tombs and temples in the shade of parasols . |
| 28 | Alexander was too far gone in his cups to detect the sarcasm but he looked at Corbett , licked his lips greedily and , snatching up a brimming cup , lurched to his feet and gestured Corbett to follow him to the far end of the room . |
| 29 | In 1984 " Union Jack " Hayward received £50,000 to console him for the untrue allegation that he was involved in a murder plot . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've made arrangements to take you to a second-hand shop . |