Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first hint that Hills might be interested in a group pensions plan came when the company 's Board asked him to arrange a formal briefing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 5 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 6 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end Becky helped me to choose a long beaded dress with a side-split and see-through sleeves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Creed told him to take a right turn , down a narrow track that led towards the ocean . |
| 10 | Morgan Kidwelly , the duke 's attorney , seems to be in this category ; he was in Gloucester 's service by August 1471 and stayed there until Bosworth forced him to find a new master . |
| 11 | Morgan Kidwelly , the duke 's attorney , seems to be in this category ; he was in Gloucester 's service by August 1471 and stayed there until Bosworth forced him to find a new master . |
| 12 | He had recently shown interest when Paramount wanted him to play a homosexual murderer in a drama called The Witness , to be directed by Milos Forman . |
| 13 | When she started flying her parents asked me to keep a watchful eye on her . |
| 14 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 15 | The fact that he was such an emotional mess helped me to keep the necessary distance . |
| 16 | So the cock and the hen allowed him to take a glistening burnished black and emerald feather and a soft creamy-white feather , and he bade them all good-bye and went into the clearing , and called to the West Wind , holding up his key . |
| 17 | The judge ordered him to undergo a two-year programme of treatment to overcome both his booze and his violent temper problems . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Similarly circumspect , George Stephen granted Clarkson priority in time but underlined how Wilberforce 's prominence enabled him to make a public issue of the slave trade in a way Clarkson could never have done . |
| 21 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud Zubi resigned along with his Cabinet on June 24 ; however , President Hafez al-Assad asked him to form a new Cabinet , which was announced on June 29 . |
| 26 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 27 | Darwin 's investigation of biogeography on the voyage of the Beagle led him to adopt an evolutionary view of how species adapt to changes in their environment ( chapter 7 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’ |
| 29 | And exposed unprepared to view a patient whose appearance caused me to warn a hardened policeman ! |
| 30 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |