Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 3 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 4 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 5 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 6 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 7 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 8 | Again silence ; an arctic frosting of the air that had nothing to do with the weather . |
| 9 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
| 10 | There was a sadness in the room , a feeling of oppression , that had nothing to do with the years of dirt and disarray . |
| 11 | His body was washed in silver by the moonlight and when he removed his shirt she felt a tiny shiver of something that had nothing to do with the pervasive cold of the night air on her chilled skin . |
| 12 | Vicky and I , although occasionally playing roles that had something to do with the ( slight ) story , were more often in a group ( Country Maidens , Serving Wenches , even Coiffed Nuns … ) . |
| 13 | It was really high pressure sort of stuff followed by this terrible waiting period , because no sooner did the record come out , and the space shot take off , the BBC banned every record that had anything to do with the moon . |
| 14 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 15 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 16 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 17 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 18 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 19 | He briefed us , and asked us to keep to the paths of the ‘ visitors ’ trail' . |
| 20 | At one time , he even dominated Mot , the surly god of death , and banished him to exile in the desert . |
| 21 | I hereby certify that I have examined and tested the following measure and found it to comply with the provisions of Schedule 4 Part II , Paragraph 4 of the above-mentioned Regulations , viz : — |
| 22 | I hereby certify that I have examined and tested the following measure and found it to comply with the provisions of Schedule 4 Part II Paragraph 4 of the above-mentioned Regulations viz : |
| 23 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 24 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 25 | He was dying and implored you to agree to the match because he and Horatia 's father were such old friends . |
| 26 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 27 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 28 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 29 | ‘ Exactly as he phoned me last night , and told me to come to the wedding . ’ |
| 30 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |