Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante . |
| 2 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 3 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 4 | In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig . |
| 5 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 6 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 7 | Her friend Angela , who worked for Tiller every year in pantomime , asked Jane to accompany her to the stage door of the Hippodrome Theatre , Manchester , to pick up a contract . |
| 8 | Alexander was too far gone in his cups to detect the sarcasm but he looked at Corbett , licked his lips greedily and , snatching up a brimming cup , lurched to his feet and gestured Corbett to follow him to the far end of the room . |
| 9 | At the end of the visit Archipenko told Modigliani to help himself to the fruit and vegetables in their garden which he took back to Jeanne and her mother as a peace offering . |
| 10 | She detailed Amy to take them into the interview room and give them tea and stay with them , and she and Ben went alongside the trolley into Resus . |
| 11 | In 1928 screen goddess Gloria Swanson hired Stroheim to direct her in the lavish Queen Kelly , but after he had wasted $600,000 on meaningless footage , Swanson fired him . |
| 12 | He allowed Jane to sit him by the table and then damp down his hair with water — ice cold and brackish ! — from the ewer . |
| 13 | He pushed open the door and allowed Catherine to precede him into the studio . |
| 14 | Hall implied that adolescence covered the years from sexual maturity to the end of physical growth in a person 's twenties , which was not dissimilar to the early nineteenth-century concept of youth , but all those who followed Hall equated it with the teen years . |
| 15 | Father got Eric to help him with the clearing-up and repairs while I took myself and Paul out from under their feet . |
| 16 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 17 | On 27 November 1609 Bowyer succeeded to the office of clerk of the parliaments and shortly afterwards brought Elsynge to assist him in the House of Lords . |
| 18 | She felt Matey take her by the arm and pull her rapidly away . |
| 19 | Suddenly we saw Lenin seize him by the collar and in an incomparable matter-of-fact manner pitch him out on to the platform . " … |
| 20 | When we stopped , he told me that he saw Jesus leading him down the path away from St Luke 's and out into the street . |
| 21 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |
| 22 | He turned and saw Emily watching him from the bottom of the stairs with his leather coat wrapped around her . |
| 23 | I felt Fielding nudge me in the gloom . |
| 24 | A cry escaped her as her face became scratched by the sharp ends of broken fern fronds , and the next instant she felt Silas lifting her from the damp ground . |
| 25 | Chen watched ; saw Karr press something into the waiter 's hand ; saw the man look down , then look up again , wide-eyed . |
| 26 | These theories enabled Prussia to present herself as the motor of German unification , a metaphor which connotes both power and a leading role . |
| 27 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 28 | A : Did Arthur make it to the bank ? |
| 29 | Did Bonnie enjoy herself in the end ? |
| 30 | Thus did T'sao rid himself of the most able man in his enemies ' camp for no greater price than the life of a condemned man . |