Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter was a pianist , had a job as a pianist , and always seemed to have money , which made Cecilia see him as a potentially good husband . |
| 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 | ‘ I ca n't believe all this , ’ Ruth breathed as she let Fernando lead her to a table by the lakeside . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He did n't need Fraser to tell him about the brother and sister . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It looked as though Hereford 's away form was changing for the better on Saturday when they drew at Mansfield , but last night an attacking display by struggling Doncaster had them on the retreat again . |
| 14 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 15 | Let Ben take it to the man in Lancaster . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At the end of the visit Archipenko told Modigliani to help himself to the fruit and vegetables in their garden which he took back to Jeanne and her mother as a peace offering . |
| 18 | She detailed Amy to take them into the interview room and give them tea and stay with them , and she and Ben went alongside the trolley into Resus . |
| 19 | Now let Clare stir it for a bit and then let Amy have a turn , but do n't slop it every where , or else you wo n't have a . |
| 20 | In 1928 screen goddess Gloria Swanson hired Stroheim to direct her in the lavish Queen Kelly , but after he had wasted $600,000 on meaningless footage , Swanson fired him . |
| 21 | Her father , a greengrocer , had stabled the pony behind the shop in the middle of town , fed it on sprouts and boiled potatoes and encouraged Nutty to turn it into a show-jumper . |
| 22 | Gazzer thought his tired arms would crack with the strain when he had to help Simon pull himself to the top of the gates … . |
| 23 | He allowed Jane to sit him by the table and then damp down his hair with water — ice cold and brackish ! — from the ewer . |
| 24 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 25 | He pushed open the door and allowed Catherine to precede him into the studio . |
| 26 | She orders Victor to accompany her to the head teacher 's office . |
| 27 | ‘ I have told Lucia to show you to the Teresa de Vertù suite . ’ |
| 28 | Initiative members argue an ACE/Intel machine would have helped Intel distinguish itself from the cloners nipping most furiously at its heels . |
| 29 | Paradoxically , though , when one sees the film from which this line was borrowed , a gloriously overheated melodrama by King Vidor entitled Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ) , one is rather startled to hear Davis deliver it with a quite unstudied , unfussy brusqueness and without any of the intonational posturing that Albee has attributed to her . |
| 30 | Athelstan rubbed his chin with the palm of his hand and remembered he 'd promised Benedicta to meet her at the Fleet prison where Simon the carpenter would spend his last evening on earth . |