Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 2 | And I told her to keep the twenty for that stuff in there . |
| 3 | I told you to keep the new ones separate . |
| 4 | It was n't easy , but I persuaded him to do the right thing . |
| 5 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 6 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 7 | Polygnotos , it is clear from Pausanias 's description , took two important steps which allowed him to express the classical spirit without the constrictions of the archaic tradition . |
| 8 | He 'd limped along under some EEC scheme which paid you to employ the unemployable until the equipment had vanished overnight and BDM became Bankrupt , Desperate and Melancholy . |
| 9 | The days have long passed when the courts adopted a strict constructionist view of interpretation which required them to adopt the literal meaning of the language . |
| 10 | Bubbling with enthusiasm , Fr Cunningham , 80 , said it was the opportunity to work with children which prompted him to accept the latest offer of as a ‘ first step to retirement ’ . |
| 11 | His first books were written while he was a correspondent for Time magazine , which assigned him to cover the Far East . |
| 12 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 13 | Lapworth was passionate in his search for truth and exactness in the solution of geological problems , and diplomatic in his presentation , gifts which enabled him to propose the accepted solution to a famous controversy . |
| 14 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 15 | Some ( e.g. pupil 3 ) attempted to obtain the answer to the question from the pattern of numbers relating to unshaded squares but most pupils saw the relationship between shaded and unshaded in each diagram which enabled them to calculate the required number directly . |
| 16 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |
| 17 | She advised me to ring the free 0800 number in London . |
| 18 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 19 | ‘ She told me to get the small details right from the start — things like hair , clothes , likes and dislikes — because it 's the small details that define an individual . ’ |
| 20 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 21 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 22 | His future was saved by the Dutch medical instrument company , Docshop , who signed him to attack the 250 Euro series . |
| 23 | Aung San travelled separately from the others , stopping over in Delhi to confer with Nehru who warned him to examine the British proposal ‘ with particular care … and not to be caught by it as I was ’ . |
| 24 | However , he impressed Sir Clements Markham [ q.v. ] , who selected him to command the SY Morning in 1902 to be sent to the relief of the Discovery expedition of Robert Falcon Scott [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | ‘ Turn around , ’ she suggested , her hand on his arm as she steered him to face the big window . |
| 26 | We undertook to , you sorry , you authorised us to de-recognise the three unions that were recognised in that field , if the unions agreed , I have to report that two of them have , and the other one naturally , discussions are still going on . |
| 27 | Or ‘ You wanted me to have the Tuscan villa , did you not ? ’ |
| 28 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 29 | We asked her to describe the other members of her group , and she told us that it was composed largely of female relatives , their mates and children . |
| 30 | Yesterday , we asked you to name the Hindu God of Love . |