Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides the permanent members of the UN Security Council he proposed to invite to the conference Iran , India and representatives of the Islamic community . |
| 2 | he tried to get into the house Rhys were |
| 3 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
| 4 | The bitch was wary of her advances and , though she condescended to pick at the food Robbie put down for her , she refused to leave the small cabin even to accompany the Labrador for an evening walk . |
| 5 | This happened to coincide with the moment Hugette Bouchardeau took over as France 's new , untried environment minister . |
| 6 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
| 7 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 8 | I went to sit in the pâtisserie Louis , on a fragile gilt chair , at a table with a pink linen cloth and a bowl of freesias . |
| 9 | It was a relieving remedy , but patients had to go to the North Surrey hospital at Epsom for final clearance . |
| 10 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 11 | They could n't be very quick because there was no electric light upstairs and they had to manage with the candle Carrie was holding . |
| 12 | After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop . |
| 13 | One minister , asked to distinguish between the way Mr Major led the review and the way Mrs Thatcher might have behaved , says : ‘ He interfered more — and more often — and earlier — than she would have done . ’ |
| 14 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 15 | Corden refused to comment on the manager Frank Gray 's position . |
| 16 | ‘ You wanted to look at the letter Jenny Connon received the day before yesterday . |