Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She said they were in love but their relationship was not physical and Gilfoyle asked her to move into the house in October , 1991 . |
| 11 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Pam prepared me to look after the baby . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The next step was to explain the programme to health visitors , giving them the material Better Shoe public relations team wished them to place with the new mother at the time of their first home visit . |
| 20 | These questions led us to think about the relationship between the public world of politics , government , industry and commerce , and the private world of the family , kinship and domestic arrangements . |
| 21 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 22 | Misinformation from respected sources led us to state in the Feedback section of our November issue that the neck on the recently reviewed Manson ‘ Classic S ’ guitar was Japanese in origin . |
| 23 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 24 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 25 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 26 | Eadred invited us to sit round the table . |
| 27 | While Kahlo 's art helped her to deal with the vicissitudes of her life , for most audiences it is her life story which allows access to her art . |
| 28 | You remember Peter when he was , er , totally different context , but the lesson is the same , when he was when Jesus called him to walk on the water and he starts walking , and then , he looks around and for what e , for whatever reason he starts sinking , the moment he calls out help Jesus reaches out and lifts him back him rescues him . |
| 29 | Equally clearly , they relied on non-linguistic strategies for deciding how their addressees wished them to act in the absence of adult-like understanding of an instruction . |
| 30 | Sir Ralph wished me to stay during the Yuletide season — even more so after he became distraught and upset . ’ |