Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 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 .
3 Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo .
4 I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter .
5 When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive .
6 ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’
7 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 .
8 Bush persuaded him to resign the top foreign policy post and become White House chief of staff , in charge of the campaign .
9 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 .
10 But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 .
14 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 .
15 For Aleksandras Macijauskas , photography began as a profession when Sutkus persuaded him to join the Lithuanian Photographic Society based in the capital Vilnius .
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