Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their fascination for twisted pop classics led them to barter their worldly goods for two acoustic guitars and into The Impossibles . |
| 2 | ( ‘ Doctor ’ was a title which people used somewhat freely when the heat of argument led them to assert their tribal group was the one most qualified by objective criteria of modernity to rule a district . ) |
| 3 | Then he asked me to do his regular work , but I did n't commit myself . |
| 4 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 5 | American psychologist Sheryl Olsen , studying a group of mothers with toddlers , asked them to rate their 13-month-old tots using a series of seven-point scales , covering social and intellectual behaviour . |
| 6 | They were amused by the way she consumed endless bowls of ice-cream or asked them to make her special snacks in between the normal meals . |
| 7 | He looked up , as Kemble had looked up , and then picked off each of the attendant five with a dimpled smile which impelled them to treasure his grand simplicity and unaffected openness . |
| 8 | Their treatment and advice have contributed towards the welfare of the horses and helped them to achieve their full potential on the racecourse . |
| 9 | Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems . |
| 10 | In addition , the aerobic activity helped them to increase their metabolic rate which is , after all , what every slimmer needs . |
| 11 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 12 | We invited her to explain her controversial aims |
| 13 | Then , the DeKalb Nite Weekly invited her to grace their front cover . |
| 14 | The feminist arguments in favour of dialogic forms of language use helped her to clarify her own reasons for employing discursive metaphor and parody , and the gendering by feminists of the notion of the ‘ bad copy ’ enabled her to incorporate her own techniques of mis-representation into a readily recognizable social context . |
| 15 | 's many friends , customers , colleagues and family helped him to celebrate his early retirement at a party at The Cotswold Water Park , near Cirencester on the evening of Friday , April 2 . |
| 16 | Lucenzo was softening , hour by hour , the longer she was with him and the more she helped him to forget his relentless ambition and that intriguing private agony which had carved his face into such severe lines . |
| 17 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 18 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 19 | Charles Frederick , we know , had used his capital to set up his little tobacconist 's business in Cumberland Street ; Emily Jane probably used hers to swell her bottom drawer , and William … well , in a moment of cavalier abandon , he dabbled in running a chandler 's shop there in Brunswick Place . |
| 20 | The barons were comparatively few in number ; the Church formally forbade them to marry their sixth cousins or any nearer relatives , and seriously attempted to enforce the prohibition on third cousins ; and even though they did not always accept this limitation , it meant that they looked far and wide in their own class for marriage alliances . |
| 21 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 22 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 23 | I asked her if he 'd returned home and she told me to mind my own business . |
| 24 | When I reported this to Control , Donleavy told me to warn Hurley , who told me to mind my own business . |
| 25 | On the bus to Alan 's flat she held the flowers carefully in her lap , then lifted them to sniff their faint fragrance . |
| 26 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |
| 27 | Just stay here ! ’ but Jean just told him to shut his big gob . |
| 28 | In Havana in April , Fidel Castro politely told him to mind his own business . |
| 29 | She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit . |
| 30 | It was that very irrevocability that caused him to lift his own confidentiality order leading to OSF spilling the beans . |