Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 2 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 3 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
| 4 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 5 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 6 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 7 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 8 | An amusing parallel in the film business is an account given by the director Ken Russell of how he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikowsky ; he described it to his potential backers as the story of a homosexual who fell in love with a nymphomaniac . |
| 9 | I mentioned it to him last week er last night actually . |
| 10 | He used it to his best advantage last week , when he raised the ghastly spectre of Belgium to warn unwary voters of the dangers of coalition governments and proportional representation . |
| 11 | Regretfully , I consigned them to my personal museum of surfing memorabilia along with my Coogee Beach swallow-tail radical intermediate . |
| 12 | Dada drove him to her little house beside a lake in Co . |
| 13 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 14 | Iona has accepted me , welcomed me to her forgiving shores . |
| 15 | David , a small , thin , smiling man with long , sensitive features , welcomed me to his little home . |
| 16 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |
| 17 | Their secret organizations had long planned a revolution ; it took place on 18 September 1885 , when the Turkish governor-general was expelled , and a telegram sent to Prince Alexander welcomed him to his new realm . |
| 18 | I showed it to you this morning Ian . |
| 19 | They used the Greek orders , adapted them to their own taste , added two more variations and employed them constructively in temples and basilicas but more often , especially in later work , only decoratively when the arch mode of construction was used , for example , in the Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus . |
| 20 | And when I arrived in Lanyon 's house , I took the dose of the drug that returned me to my normal appearance . |
| 21 | She guided his hand to her elegantly-moulded globes , and pressed it to their soft plumpness . |
| 22 | Lavender put her pencils back into the rather damp pencil-box and returned it to its correct place on her own desk . |
| 23 | Daily visits to East Oxford soon restored it to its former glory . |
| 24 | She left it there for a few seconds , then restored it to its previous position . |
| 25 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
| 26 | It was in the course of his translation work that he received in 1790 the stimulus which led him to his radical rethink of medical treatment . |
| 27 | He also related them to his own state of affairs . |
| 28 | But he did n't live at that address and eventually he took me to his own home . |
| 29 | Both Parker and Spurgeon were able to maintain elegant homes and a carriage and pair which took them to their respective chapels . |
| 30 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |