Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she started flying her parents asked me to keep a watchful eye on her . |
| 2 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 3 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 4 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough tried everything to complete a grand slam of derby wins , but the midfield prompting of Peake and the dangerous flank attacks of John Hendrie , failed to wrest victory from Sunderland 's unyielding grasp . |
| 6 | During his years in London Rambush expanded his knowledge into the field of chemical processing , continuing his studies at Battersea Polytechnic under Professor J. W. Hinchley , who invited him to become a founding member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1922 . |
| 7 | Was she real , or have I created her , or transmogrified her to suit a desired image of my own ? |
| 8 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 9 | When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him . |
| 10 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 11 | Recently I used it to stick a plastic-coated wire rack to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door while I checked the position of the rack with the door closed . |
| 12 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |
| 13 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 14 | Finally Miss Thorne refused to wait any longer and told them to take a short break while she left the hall to make a phone call to Hillbrook Farm . |
| 15 | Cos you just told me to use a wee bit of it . |
| 16 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Another thing which caused me to spend a long time on the story was that prostitution is a black and whit story , but the business side of photography usually wants colour . |
| 18 | And exposed unprepared to view a patient whose appearance caused me to warn a hardened policeman ! |
| 19 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 20 | Creed told him to take a right turn , down a narrow track that led towards the ocean . |
| 21 | While he ate and listened , the telephone rang three times on minor parish business and Flora badgered him to read a pious poem she had just written which began : |
| 22 | At the very height of the paroxysm , he made a movement with his knee which caused him to give a great cry which she , lost in the abandon of the moment , construed as passion , but was in fact a loud , animal yelp of pain . |
| 23 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 24 | He was the landlord of the Dowlais ironworks , in the 1840s the largest ironworks in the world , and his paltry returns from the Dowlais lease caused him to drive a hard bargain with those seeking the coal of his estate . |
| 25 | For no earthly reason you caused him to believe a monstrous lie . " |
| 26 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 27 | A WOMAN whose silicone breast implant ruptured and caused her to have a partial mastectomy was awarded £17 million by an American jury yesterday . |
| 28 | He was not without talent , though , said Joe , and he advised him to join a local theatre group to get some experience now that the studio training scheme had been abolished . |
| 29 | Mr Chambers ' solicitor advised him to try a medium-sized London firm . |
| 30 | It was the Foreign Office 's reluctance to upset the entente with France by pressing too hard on the Congo issue which first convinced Morel of the baneful effects of traditional diplomacy , and provoked him to develop a coherent critique of what he later called ‘ the intrigues and imbecilities of professional diplomats . ’ |