Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tommy Boyle told me not to throw in the towel , ’ she said . |
| 2 | He chased the customer down the road and told him never to come in the shop again — that was the way Ron was ! |
| 3 | He had crashed in the earlier 250cc race and although he appeared to be unhurt the doctors advised him not to ride in the superbike . |
| 4 | It seems likely that his preoccupation with her promisingly clever older sister , Jenny ( Jane Alice ) , caused unhappiness in May 's childhood and further spurred her on to succeed in the practical arts . |
| 5 | This enabled me still to compete in the Hammersmith and London Schools . |
| 6 | While he advised them to refrain from indulging in personal abuse of Jews … he exhorted them not to retreat in the face of Police persecution and declared that , if necessary , all Fascist speakers should be prepared to face imprisonment rather than comply with the dictum of the authorities that they were not to attack Jewry . |
| 7 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |
| 8 | I had , for once , no official papers to read and picked it up to read in the tram . |