Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 2 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 3 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 4 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 5 | The fact that he was such an emotional mess helped me to keep the necessary distance . |
| 6 | Your editorial on page one of the Summer 1991 issue prompted me to record the following thoughts which have a direct bearing on the subject of active participation . |
| 7 | He was never a precise golfer in the mould of Hogan , but his magnificent tactical management enabled him to calculate the exact odds in moments of high tension . |
| 8 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 9 | They reconstructed their Y6N17 compositions from averages of microprobe data and modal analyses of three groundmass minerals , including albite ( see figure ) , asserting that this technique allowed them to avoid the contaminating effects of xenoliths and secondary mineralization that pervade the sample . |
| 10 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 11 | just as a desire to understand absolute holism led us to analyse the substantive claims of Althusser and Poulantzas , so we must now consider work inspired by an attachment to concessive holism in order to reach a clearer view of its guiding interests . |
| 12 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’ |
| 14 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |
| 15 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 16 | Her strong commitment to women 's rights led her to write the first Salvadorean publication on the oppression of women , The Condition of Women in El Salvador , published in Mexico in 1961 . |
| 17 | One day the King invited me to watch the regular entertainments , which are greatly enjoyed by him , his family , and his lords and ladies . |
| 18 | Sandra began collecting several years ago after a large repair bill for a timepiece prompted her to learn the intricate ins and outs of their workings . |
| 19 | The majority in the snail darter case thought that the best interpretation of the convention about statutes required them to enforce the literal meaning of the Environmental Protection Act unless it could be proved that Congress intended otherwise . |
| 20 | William the Conqueror meant it to impress the rebellious Londoners with his power , as well as protecting them . ’ |
| 21 | The status which it gave him as a disinherited lord led him to oppose the Anglo-Scottish truce of 1323 and helped to persuade him to turn his coat shortly afterwards . |
| 22 | Staff sponsored them to wear the furry animal costumes to raise funds for the ‘ Make A Wish Appeal ’ which makes dreams come true for sick children . |
| 23 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 24 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 25 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |
| 26 | George Bush chose him to run the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) at a time when he still thought he could co-opt and not alienate the green lobby . |
| 27 | Bush persuaded him to resign the top foreign policy post and become White House chief of staff , in charge of the campaign . |
| 28 | Intact , the collection enabled you to study the entire element of the Cubist style ’ . |
| 29 | Sotion and Ps. -Aristotle quoted them to confirm the remote origin of philosophy outside the Greek world ; but the main argument was represented by Magi and Brahmans who had a better and older reputation among Greek thinkers and historians ( Diog . |
| 30 | But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib . |