Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 2 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 3 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 4 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 5 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 6 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 7 | He briefed us , and asked us to keep to the paths of the ‘ visitors ’ trail' . |
| 8 | At one time , he even dominated Mot , the surly god of death , and banished him to exile in the desert . |
| 9 | I hereby certify that I have examined and tested the following measure and found it to comply with the provisions of Schedule 4 Part II , Paragraph 4 of the above-mentioned Regulations , viz : — |
| 10 | I hereby certify that I have examined and tested the following measure and found it to comply with the provisions of Schedule 4 Part II Paragraph 4 of the above-mentioned Regulations viz : |
| 11 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 12 | He was dying and implored you to agree to the match because he and Horatia 's father were such old friends . |
| 13 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 14 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 15 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 16 | ‘ Exactly as he phoned me last night , and told me to come to the wedding . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was sitting on the bed cuddling Carla when her mother came in and told her to go to the shops and get some bits and pieces . |
| 19 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 20 | Benjamin thanked the groom and told him to return to the chateau . |
| 21 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 22 | On the third evening of the first week he sent one of his assistants into the dining hall and told him to get on the mike and chat to the campers/diners . |
| 23 | Mazzin came and told us to lie along the inside wall together . |
| 24 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 25 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 26 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 27 | Having instigated the new lead , the FA have turned away and allowed it to develop into an organisation in which the voice of reason struggles for a hearing . |
| 28 | Needless to say , when the local newscaster finally ended our agony and allowed us to return to the cricket , we discovered that the England captain had been dismissed . |
| 29 | They got the harness off him , and turned him to bleed into the grass rather than into his own throat . |
| 30 | Harry 's employer , Major Spofforth , was himself a golfer ; he recognized that the young man had skill , and encouraged him to persevere with the game . |