Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 3 | To back-benchers who expressed alarm at VAT on domestic fuel , Mr Lamont and Mr Major simply invited them to step into the real world . |
| 4 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 5 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 6 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 7 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 8 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 12 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 16 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 17 | ‘ We decided to build a balcony with steps going down to the garden , but our builder advised us to think about the year-round advantages of a conservatory , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 18 | Mazzin came and told us to lie along the inside wall together . |
| 19 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 20 | We asked you to choose between the two Royals in a fun phone-in . |
| 21 | An elaborate version of pass the parcel , which allowed me to travel around the southern part of the state doing workshops in a variety of places . |
| 22 | This allowed them to distinguish between the two separate processes of adsorption of viruses onto cells , and actual entry into the cells . |
| 23 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then , at last feeling fairly safe , she allowed herself to sink into the nearest chair , totally drained by everything that had happened since she had woken up this morning . |
| 26 | For a fleeting second she allowed herself to revel in the unaccustomed feeling of having the upper hand over him . |
| 27 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 28 | Guiding his entire policy was a sense of perspective , which allowed him to look beyond the immediate impasse and to visualize a future beyond Algeria . |
| 29 | His face was still , his mouth held in a taut beautiful line , his eyes as cold as an arctic glacier as he encouraged her to continue with the slightest nod of his head . |
| 30 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |