Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After work that day , 13 September , I went to the hospital and asked to see Suor Eusebia , the Mother Superior , a truly saintly woman . |
| 2 | She settled the squirrel evening cape that had belonged to her mother on top of her light summer coat , then walked in and asked to see Mrs O'Dare . |
| 3 | Herbert Cranko asked to see Dulcie Howes and discussed John 's training with her . |
| 4 | Ken asked to see Robert Bolt and demanded the speech to be cut . |
| 5 | They will be used in research by the Mass Section of the NPL , into the effects of vacuum on such standards aimed at offering better traceability to the national standard of measurements made using Pt-Ir weights in vacuum . |
| 6 | In the morning , she agreed to see Winifred Shalcross . |
| 7 | I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village . |
| 8 | It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island . |
| 9 | First we got to see Joey B. Where is he ? ’ |
| 10 | MALCOLM ALLISON was back in managerial business last night when Dennis Rofe quit struggling Bristol Rovers after a row over the man brought in to guide him through troubled waters . |
| 11 | He lived to see South Africa bend instead . |
| 12 | The Act sought to preserve UK fishing quotas for UK fishermen by stipulating that UK-registered boats had to be 75 per cent British-owned and that 75 per cent of the crew had to be UK residents . |
| 13 | Barber 's interest in City politics waned a little after 1738 , but he was active in the controversial mayoral elections of 1740 when the Whig-dominated court of aldermen sought to exclude Sir Robert Godschall from the chair . |
| 14 | Some momentary interruptions earlier by nearby geese failed to distract Jose Carreras , who carried on to give four encores , before the audience would let him go . |
| 15 | Britain dumps more than seven million tonnes of sewage a year in the North Sea ; 125 out of 338 bathing beaches failed to meet EC standards chiefly because of sewage pollution . |
| 16 | This , it was argued , failed to meet Lord Simon 's definition of outrage in Knuller v. |
| 17 | Olechowski needed the support of the IMF if he were to renegotiate the terms of Poland 's US$1,600 million three-year extended facility which had been approved in April 1991 [ see p. 38162 ] but suspended in October after the previous government failed to meet IMF performance criteria on the budget deficit and expansion of domestic credit . |
| 18 | Mr Mobutu said on Thursday he believed he could produce an agreement this month , after Mr Savimbi had had a week of talks with US officials , including 30 minutes with President Bush , and agreed to accept Mr Mobutu as mediator between his Unita guerrilla organisation and the Luanda government . |
| 19 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 20 | Stalin 's successor Khruschev , in the mid-1950s , made overtaking US meat production ( which entailed rapid increases in the production of feed-grains ) the measure of success or failure of his attempt to improve the Soviet diet . |
| 21 | ‘ Mrs Wimbush tells me you expected to find Thorn House still a maternity home . |
| 22 | Although originally asked to preface Les Chiens de garde , his preference for Aden , Arabie is explained by his ideological position in 1960 . |
| 23 | The following case was dealt with by Northallerton magistrates : Brian Edward Robson , 45 , of West Home Farm , High Worsall , Yarm , admitted driving Land Rover with excess alcohol in breath , fined £350 plus £25 costs , licence endorsed , disqualified for 18 months . |
| 24 | She said : ‘ You got to know Benedict Joseph as well , did you ? ’ |
| 25 | Through his uncle , Dr Thomas Harland , he got to know Gustav Christian Schwabe , a partner in the Liverpool shipping company of John Bibby & Sons . |
| 26 | Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle . |
| 27 | As an active member of the suffragette movement she got to know Dr Jessie Margaret Murray , who in 1913 opened the London Medico-Psychological Clinic , of which May Sinclair became a founding member . |
| 28 | Through It she got to know Dave Hall and his wife . |
| 29 | Close friend the director of the Lord Taverners Patrick Shervington has been in to see him too , he got to know Leslie Crowther through the entertainer 's extensive charity work . |
| 30 | That was how I got to know Nikolai Nikolaevich Khardzhiev . |