Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hardy Hall and George and Marie cases introduced you to the idea that case studies ought to include a certain amount of financial and statistical data . |
| 2 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 3 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Lifting the spoon from the bowl , Tuan Ti Fo placed it to the boy 's lips , tilting it gently . |
| 5 | On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh . |
| 6 | Signor Gismondi followed her to the door . |
| 7 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 8 | His final campaign photo-opportunity took him to the North-West and the Accrington Brick and Tile Company . |
| 9 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 10 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 11 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 12 | Mr Duncan took me to the farm and I met Dan and Stella Parks . |
| 13 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 14 | Madame Gebrec accompanied them to the car . |
| 15 | Endill ran to the cart as Mr McDoodle brought it to the house . |
| 16 | Mr Utterson led him to the address on Mr Hyde 's visiting card . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 18 | Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons . |
| 19 | Mr Wormwood followed her to the front-door and said , ‘ Good of you to come , Miss Hawkes , or is it Miss Harris ? ’ |
| 20 | When the documents were ready , Mr. Tucker sent them to the Burnham branch , a sub-branch of Slough , to await signature by Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien . |
| 21 | She says : ‘ My husband John took me to the hairdresser yesterday . |
| 22 | Because of their age , they were cosseted more than usual and Mr Smith escorted them to the boat and bought them dinner . |
| 23 | A splendid , concise article in your Apr 26 Business section alerted me to the underhand profiteering of at least one of the high street banks at its farmer customers ' expense before the scandal broke in the national press and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses . |
| 24 | Pahdra Singh called me to the club this morning where he and Reg Pybus and their crony , that stingy git Pugh , the corpse planter , unveiled the new team strip . |
| 25 | Brian Gordon Laudable sentiments Brian , but I have a funny feeling the organisers were more than glad that a big name team made it to the final . |
| 26 | To add to Mr Rather 's discomfort , the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , told the Post that he had rejected the same piece of film , narrated by Mr Rather , as false when CBS News offered it to the BBC in August 1987 . |
| 27 | Even before Saturday Night and Sunday Morning pushed him to the front of young British actors , he 'd turned down post-RADA contracts with Rank and Associated British Pictures Corporation . |
| 28 | The opening door recalled him to the present situation . |
| 29 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 30 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |