Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 2 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This qualified her to play in the Scottish final at the new course at Westerwood , Cumbernauld . |
| 11 | I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it . |
| 12 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 13 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 14 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 15 | At the end of each day , as he had done since the beginning of the autumn , Robert took him home , where Mr and Mrs Wilson petted him , fed him , and put him to sleep in the spare bedroom as if he were their own son . |
| 16 | To encourage Lewis in this direction , Eliot gave him to review in the next year Egyptian Mummies and Essays on the Evolution of Man by Elliot Smith , as well as Medicine , Magic and Religion by W. H. R. Rivers . |
| 17 | He said that the dummy stimulated her to produce in the same way that the sight of the living calf should have done . |
| 18 | Richard Morris , Paul Rayner and Kevin Greenhill , from High Wycombe , Bucks , were trying to win the Chief Scout Award badge when the rain forced them to shelter in a tiny tent they were carrying . |
| 19 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 20 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 21 | I nursed my damaged finger , and showed it to anyone who wanted me to join in the rough stuff . |
| 22 | The basis of the control was that the courts have held that , when Parliament gives a public body statutory authority to act , it can be implied that Parliament intended it to act in a particular way ; in good faith , in a reasonable manner , in accordance with the requirements of natural justice . |
| 23 | Chopping onion into a pot , he set it to soften in a little oil and went out to check the Land-Rover . |
| 24 | ‘ The Conservatives wanted us to act in a commercial manner and that 's what we 're doing , ’ he said . |
| 25 | a star and wanted us to share in the good luck . |