Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caduta asked me to come to an address in Little Italy at two o'clock that afternoon . |
| 2 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 3 | Dušan 's ambition led him to aspire to the throne of Byzantium . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Good manners forbade you to riffle through the pile , lift the layers until you found one you liked the look of . |
| 6 | His blue eyes implored her to take off the gag . |
| 7 | Once , the script required him to jump through a plate-glass window . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She said they were in love but their relationship was not physical and Gilfoyle asked her to move into the house in October , 1991 . |
| 14 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 15 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 16 | The warm sun allowed us to eat outside every day , while chilly evenings were spent in front of a log fire in our villa . |
| 17 | But the quick-thinking cabbie , who picked up the woman from a pub in Exeter , Devon , alerted a cashier when the hijacker ordered him to stop at a motorway service station for cigarettes . |
| 18 | ‘ The Conservatives wanted us to act in a commercial manner and that 's what we 're doing , ’ he said . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 21 | Later , it was to take on consultative functions ; in practice , most observers expected it to act as a clearing house for mutual trade between its members , which was expected to remain important for some years , and to co-ordinate east European policy toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 22 | When Dr Prentice asked you to pose as a woman did he give a reason ? |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | The idea of a one-woman tribute was conceived five years ago , when larger-than-life director Bryan Izzard asked me to contribute to a Channel Four programme on the monologue called The Eye Of The Little Yellow Dog , starring , amongst others , the late Leonard Rossiter , Cilla Black , Alec McCowen , Diane Langton , Anita Harris and Ronald Lacey . |
| 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 | Twenty years ago we were thrilled when our accountant advised us to move into a larger house in order to qualify for a much higher tax exemption on our mortgage . |
| 30 | Richard Morris , Paul Rayner and Kevin Greenhill , from High Wycombe , Bucks , were trying to win the Chief Scout Award badge when the rain forced them to shelter in a tiny tent they were carrying . |