Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dušan 's ambition led him to aspire to the throne of Byzantium . |
| 2 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 3 | Good manners forbade you to riffle through the pile , lift the layers until you found one you liked the look of . |
| 4 | His blue eyes implored her to take off the gag . |
| 5 | New regulations for setting up political parties required them to register with the government for a year , have at least five elected office holders , and own property of more than 10,000,000 New Taiwan dollars . |
| 6 | Mr Notice , 32 , of Welling , Kent , undefeated before detached retinas forced him to retire from the ring , appeared before a special magistrates ' court in Reigate , Surrey . |
| 7 | But what aroused resentment from people in the film industry had nothing to do with the merits of these films , which critic Raymond Durgnat reasonably characterized as ‘ sub-Ealing comedies so timid as to be positively ingratiating , ’ nor the production programme 's lack of profitability . |
| 8 | Dorothy Sayers , discussing the literary tastes of one of her characters , the Russian exile Paul Alexis , said of the Ruritanian type of story that ‘ the greater European powers of the League of Nations had nothing to do with the matter ’ : |
| 9 | Mr Gleeson said it would be unfair to suggest the cash injection had something to do with the forthcoming General Election . |
| 10 | In the face of slave rebelliousness abolitionists denied that their support of gradual emancipation had anything to do with the Demerara revolt or that ‘ rash philanthropy ’ had produced slave disorder on earlier occasions in Guadeloupe , St Domingue or Barbados . |
| 11 | Even though their losses forced them to merge before the end of the year , the assumptions on which TV had been organized could never be quite the same again . |
| 12 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 13 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 14 | She said they were in love but their relationship was not physical and Gilfoyle asked her to move into the house in October , 1991 . |
| 15 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 16 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 17 | For a few moments Sandison allowed himself to take in the figure before him and he ignored what had been said . |
| 18 | The first important modern paintings sale of the year held by Guy Loudmer on 16 February contained nothing to compare with the outstanding works featured in his sales during the height of the speculative boom two or three years ago . |
| 19 | I do not want to suggest that Stalin had nothing to do with the origins of the cold war . |
| 20 | Now do you think that the campaign th the th , the campaigns against the use in cosmetic testing had anything to do with the changes that were brought in , or do you think advances and responsible er science would have , would have made those changes anyway ? |
| 21 | Former Quins centre Ron Eriksson had plenty to celebrate with the only try in London Scottish 's 8-3 win over a rebuilt Gloucester side . |
| 22 | To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain . |
| 23 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 24 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 25 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 26 | Pam prepared me to look after the baby . |
| 27 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 28 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 29 | Fifteen Para , which has its headquarters in my constituency , was being marched to oblivion until public opinion brought itself to bear on the Ministry , and I am grateful that it has taken a step backwards , but we still do not know what size that step is . |
| 30 | While Babcock Thorn yesterday emphasised its jobs announcement had nothing to do with the Trident issue , the losses will clearly increase the pressure on ministers to award it the nuclear submarine work . |