Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 2 | Then he tried to force me to take the damn' thing , and I had to call attention to my delicate condition . |
| 3 | My first meeting with was e a I doubt whether he actually remembers er but it was actually on an Inter City , I do n't know whether he does remember , on an Inter City back from London erm three or four years ago when h he also tried to get me to join the Labour Party if I remember rightly . |
| 4 | In these examples the therapists endeavoured to help the patients come to terms with the loss and at the same time tried to assist them to tackle the other problems they were facing . |
| 5 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |
| 6 | ‘ However after a great deal of consultation with the Historical Monuments Commission and Planning Department , we decided to use it to face the new church , harmonising the old with the new . |
| 7 | Admittedly the computer did use them to calculate the appropriate genetic formula for every point on the picture . |
| 8 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 9 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 10 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 11 | Yanto had told her to give the small salmon to Sid , providing he coughed up the twenty quid , but Mary decided she could get something out of it herself , especially after that uncomfortable bicycle ride . |
| 12 | Cissie had a love of reading , especially since Beth had helped her to master the longer words that she had never really understood . |
| 13 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |
| 14 | The surname , from her first husband , had been Polish , but she had adapted it to fit the modern age . |
| 15 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 16 | She thought suddenly that she had taken Dr Neil for granted , that she had not fully realised either his hard work or his dedication , and for the first time understood the impulse which had caused him to leave the cushioned life of a younger son of a good family and become an East End doctor instead . |
| 17 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 18 | Allen said Soon-Yi had asked him to take the nude photos . |
| 19 | Explaining that she was due to meet her INLA boss Dominic ‘ Mad Dog ’ McGlinchey in the Republic that November day , she told detectives : ‘ You may find this hard to believe and think I 'm hard and callous but if Dominic had asked me to do the same again , I would have done it . ’ |
| 20 | However he welcomed the manner in which the new law had resolved the " most serious " objections which had led him to veto the 1990 version , and had made it clear that US government " requests " to third countries or private citizens for help in covert actions did not need to be reported to Congress . |
| 21 | A telegram from the new Chair of the Central Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , to local bank branches on July 28 had authorised them to finance the estimated debts of 1,190,000 million roubles accumulated between Russian state enterprises . |
| 22 | Since the Hungarians had forced him to accept the famous ‘ Compromise ’ of June 1867 which divided the Austrian dominions , Franz-Joseph 's field of action in foreign policy was limited by pressures from the Hungarian half of the Empire . |
| 23 | She wondered if he had married her to get the better grant . |