Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I invited Reinhard to join me in some parallel experiments in chicks ; to our delight , 2-Dgal , injected either just before or up to a couple of hours after training , blocked fucose incorporation into the chick brain glycoproteins and produced amnesia in animals tested twenty-four hours later .
2 Got Walker to deflower her under this ancient fucking yew tree in Perthshire .
3 When the opportunity to acquire Mothercare arose , the Dutchman encouraged Conran to seize it with both hands .
4 Lewis pressed Adam to accompany him on those solicitous weekend visits but Adam nearly always said he was too busy or would be bored .
5 ‘ Because I am running out of money , ’ she added , and she crossed her fingers beneath the light blanket which Miss Mates had thrown over her earlier and asked God to forgive her for such dreadful lies , and so many of them .
6 I rang Haines to tell him of that fact and there was nothing else I could do as I had no notion of where in the Bahamas Max might be .
7 I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion .
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