Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 2 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 3 | It was this that later led them to build an electrochemical cell . |
| 4 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 5 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 6 | When she started flying her parents asked me to keep a watchful eye on her . |
| 7 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 8 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 11 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
| 12 | But it helped me to gain a deeper appreciation of what is involved . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The suspicion was always there ; he only pursued her to quench an aching need . |
| 15 | In his meetings with legislators Reagan 's personal qualities proved invaluable ; his relaxed and affable manner , his warmth , humour and charm all helped him to establish an unusual rapport with both Republicans and Democrats . |
| 16 | Was she real , or have I created her , or transmogrified her to suit a desired image of my own ? |
| 17 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 20 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 21 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I was interested to hear Derek remark how much more difficult he found it to cull a larger fry , like the inch plus Angel that had slipped through his quality control . |
| 24 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Finally , in growing anger , I told them to perform an unlikely act upon themselves — they stared — and turned away . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Cos you just told me to use a wee bit of it . |
| 29 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |