Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hardy Hall and George and Marie cases introduced you to the idea that case studies ought to include a certain amount of financial and statistical data . |
| 2 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 3 | Lifting the spoon from the bowl , Tuan Ti Fo placed it to the boy 's lips , tilting it gently . |
| 4 | On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh . |
| 5 | Signor Gismondi followed her to the door . |
| 6 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 7 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 8 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 9 | Mr Duncan took me to the farm and I met Dan and Stella Parks . |
| 10 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 11 | Madame Gebrec accompanied them to the car . |
| 12 | Endill ran to the cart as Mr McDoodle brought it to the house . |
| 13 | Mr Utterson led him to the address on Mr Hyde 's visiting card . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 15 | Mr Wormwood followed her to the front-door and said , ‘ Good of you to come , Miss Hawkes , or is it Miss Harris ? ’ |
| 16 | When the documents were ready , Mr. Tucker sent them to the Burnham branch , a sub-branch of Slough , to await signature by Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien . |
| 17 | Because of their age , they were cosseted more than usual and Mr Smith escorted them to the boat and bought them dinner . |
| 18 | Pahdra Singh called me to the club this morning where he and Reg Pybus and their crony , that stingy git Pugh , the corpse planter , unveiled the new team strip . |
| 19 | To add to Mr Rather 's discomfort , the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , told the Post that he had rejected the same piece of film , narrated by Mr Rather , as false when CBS News offered it to the BBC in August 1987 . |
| 20 | Even before Saturday Night and Sunday Morning pushed him to the front of young British actors , he 'd turned down post-RADA contracts with Rank and Associated British Pictures Corporation . |
| 21 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 22 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 23 | Mrs Aboud led me to the balcony from where it was evident that many of the surrounding buildings — like those elsewhere in the Arab quarter — had been devastated , their roofs smashed in and their windows punched out of their frames . |
| 24 | She knew Angel Clare preferred her to the others . |
| 25 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 26 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 27 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 28 | Persistent rain prevented a resumption until 5pm on Saturday and a single by Hick off Winston Benjamin took him to the 20,000 mark . |
| 29 | After she had signed in , Brian Everthorpe directed her to the section of the car park reserved for visitors , and waited for her at the entrance to the Administration Block . |
| 30 | Its former owner , the late Audrey Barrie-Brown left it to the Roman Research Trust and asked that it be turned into an educational centre . |