Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When she started flying her parents asked me to keep a watchful eye on her . |
| 3 | 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 ' ) . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 7 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
| 8 | But it helped me to gain a deeper appreciation of what is involved . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Was she real , or have I created her , or transmogrified her to suit a desired image of my own ? |
| 11 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Cos you just told me to use a wee bit of it . |
| 20 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | And exposed unprepared to view a patient whose appearance caused me to warn a hardened policeman ! |
| 23 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 24 | Creed told him to take a right turn , down a narrow track that led towards the ocean . |
| 25 | While he ate and listened , the telephone rang three times on minor parish business and Flora badgered him to read a pious poem she had just written which began : |
| 26 | At the very height of the paroxysm , he made a movement with his knee which caused him to give a great cry which she , lost in the abandon of the moment , construed as passion , but was in fact a loud , animal yelp of pain . |
| 27 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 28 | He was the landlord of the Dowlais ironworks , in the 1840s the largest ironworks in the world , and his paltry returns from the Dowlais lease caused him to drive a hard bargain with those seeking the coal of his estate . |
| 29 | For no earthly reason you caused him to believe a monstrous lie . " |
| 30 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |