Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 7 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 10 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 11 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Mazzin came and told us to lie along the inside wall together . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 23 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
| 24 | This label allowed us to start from the simple proposition that in some classrooms more than one teacher was present and to explore without preconception what they were doing . |
| 25 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 26 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 27 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 28 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 29 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 30 | This qualified her to play in the Scottish final at the new course at Westerwood , Cumbernauld . |