Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In 1976 , the N.C.T.D. re-formed itself to become the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf ( B.A.T.O.D. ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 5 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 6 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’ |
| 8 | Grant forced himself to hold the challenging stare of the glittering black eyes for what seemed an age , but what was in fact only a few seconds . |
| 9 | George Bush chose him to run the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) at a time when he still thought he could co-opt and not alienate the green lobby . |
| 10 | Bush persuaded him to resign the top foreign policy post and become White House chief of staff , in charge of the campaign . |
| 11 | Sotion and Ps. -Aristotle quoted them to confirm the remote origin of philosophy outside the Greek world ; but the main argument was represented by Magi and Brahmans who had a better and older reputation among Greek thinkers and historians ( Diog . |
| 12 | But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib . |
| 13 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 14 | Next I listened to a message from Andy Kennedy talking about the unreached peoples of the 10–40 window , which includes Saudi Arabia , and how the Lord wanted them to hear the good news . |
| 15 | The main features were well known to most travellers , but Green wanted them to discover the lesser known tarns , valleys and fells of his beloved Lake District . |
| 16 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 17 | Kirov forced himself to examine the faked photograph in detail , his keen eye searching for the slightest flaw . |
| 18 | Wolfgang intended to write an opera for Paris , but Leopold warned him to study the national taste first , since his reputation would hang on his first piece . |
| 19 | For Aleksandras Macijauskas , photography began as a profession when Sutkus persuaded him to join the Lithuanian Photographic Society based in the capital Vilnius . |
| 20 | Glad to be alone in her familiar little room later , Leonora forced herself to face the indigestible truth . |