Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [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 | The anxiety of the Tsar and Tsarina to shield their haemophiliac son led them to withdraw into a narrow family circle , incurring the displeasure of members of high society . |
| 3 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 12 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 13 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 17 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 21 | This was a pool hall expression alluding to a cue ball played with side , or spin , which caused it to behave in a deceptive way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Twenty years ago we were thrilled when our accountant advised us to move into a larger house in order to qualify for a much higher tax exemption on our mortgage . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Mazzin came and told us to lie along the inside wall together . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 28 | We asked you to choose between the two Royals in a fun phone-in . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This allowed them to distinguish between the two separate processes of adsorption of viruses onto cells , and actual entry into the cells . |