Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were amused by the way she consumed endless bowls of ice-cream or asked them to make her special snacks in between the normal meals . |
| 2 | I had a number of telephone conversations with him , and an interim letter dated 7 January in which he suggested , or asked me to suggest several possible dates . |
| 3 | Mr Jordan 's advice to any woman who thinks her doctor has behaved unprofessionally or asked her to do something humiliating is to refuse straightaway and report the incident . |
| 4 | He had n't explained what he wanted , or asked her to call back , but Loretta 's resolution wavered momentarily . |
| 5 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
| 6 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 7 | Was she real , or have I created her , or transmogrified her to suit a desired image of my own ? |
| 8 | But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things . |
| 9 | A local authority , once satisfied that an odour amounts to a statutory nuisance is under a duty to serve an abatement notice in accordance with s.93 of the Public Health Act 1936 on the person whose act , default or sufferance gave rise to the nuisance or caused it to continue , requiring that person , in a specified time , usually two to six months , to abate the nuisance and to execute such remedial works and take such steps as may be necessary for that purpose . |
| 10 | And it was just a pity that the material she was given or told us to read , she said was too advanced for us . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Establishing a positive self-image does not depend on a cheery morale boost , but on appropriating the promises of God and praying and planning expectantly for their outworking in the situations in which God has already placed us or challenged us to become involved . |
| 13 | In the year I had skippered Wavebreaker at least half of our married male charterers had either offered Ellen a job or pressed her to visit their offices the next time she passed through their city . |
| 14 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 15 | If anybody has any absolutely yes I 'll be quite happy I mean to me chairman of the trust or with management committee to meet anybody if they feel that they 've got some concern they wish to discuss I 'm quite happy to do that all I can say is that nobody has actually wro wro wrote to me or rang me to say they 'd like to meet to discuss that and I 'm quite happy to do that . |
| 16 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 17 | ‘ Now I need to know who paid you or blackmailed you to call me in the weighing room . ’ |
| 18 | Somehow John forced or persuaded her to achieve what she had found impossible before and , more important , he also won from her a performance of quietly expressive lyricism . |
| 19 | It is this conviction that led her to team up with the Plenary Foundation for Uruguayan Women to launch a multi-media project on the subject of women , mental health and sexuality . |
| 20 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 21 | She had a unique gift for restoring them to health , and an intuition that led her to free each into the wild just when its confidence was regained , its body mended , and its animal fulfilment clearly dependent upon the wider world . |
| 22 | It was around Easter , and perhaps it was this that led him to wax theological as we bounced across the heather and gorse . |
| 23 | As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism . |
| 24 | He was a keen student of the scriptures , particularly the Book of Revelations , and while meditating in his Calabrian retreat on the mystery of the Trinity and how it related to the time-process he had moments of intense spiritual illumination that led him to formulate a new millenarian philosophy of history . |
| 25 | Les , 61 , whose wife Tracy , 40 , is expecting their first child , has stopped smoking since the health scare that led him to quit a show last year . |
| 26 | Election Comment : Never forget the damage Labour did Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recalls the chaos of the 1970s that led him to leave the country |
| 27 | The observations that led him to make the distinction are deceptively simple . |
| 28 | The lack of judgement that led him to write to Routh in such a vein was Nora 's fault . |
| 29 | The fourth series ( starting on Wednesday , BBC1 , 4.35pm ) covers plenty of ground quizzing people about relationships , models about their looks and one teenager with an obsession that led him to wash his hands until they bled . |
| 30 | In interviews , Gedge said he was fascinated by the downside of Best 's character ; the flaws in his make-up that led him to skip training session and stay in discotheques ( as they were then called ) for hours after he had officially opened them . |