Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applicant sought permission to enter the United Kingdom as a visitor for one week . |
| 2 | On the plea that she feared others might intrude , she asked permission to lock the door and promptly did so from the outside . |
| 3 | He asked permission to evacuate the whole of the Woevre Plain , now menaced by the rapid German advance on the Meuse Highlands . |
| 4 | He simply asked permission to visit the pope to consult him about his troubles . |
| 5 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 6 | One day I asked permission to photograph the largest house in Goa . |
| 7 | Force 136 asked permission to arm the AFO . |
| 8 | In 1929 he asked permission to introduce the semi-circle at Highbury , but was refused . |
| 9 | Fleischmann consulted with Pons and they agreed ; Cookson got permission to carry the story . |
| 10 | So I said well I Danny rang this morning and he got permission to put the fire on and put them , I 'm going to move them all into the front and erm to air them up . |
| 11 | Such a solution was found by the government by invoking , with the King 's agreement , a clause in the Constitution dealing with the sovereign 's " incapacity to reign " which empowered parliament to suspend the sovereign and execute his functions . |
| 12 | Our Tailor Made Department has the skill and knowledge to put together any combination . |
| 13 | On the west side the great grey Westmorland slated roof dominates the three two-storey bay windows . |
| 14 | Then it used fur to cover the skin . |
| 15 | On Wednesdays the early shift stopped work to hear the Minister 's nationwide broadcast . |
| 16 | She put it aside now and helped Breeze to prepare the very simple meal that Roger Kenyon would share . |
| 17 | The studies of futures by Clark ( 1973 ) , Tauchen and Pitts ( 1983 ) , Helms and Martell ( 1985 ) , and Hall , Brorsen , and Irwin ( 1989 ) found evidence supporting the mixture-of-distributions hypothesis , while the study by Hudson , Leuthold , and Sarassoro ( 1987 ) did not . |
| 18 | Of the six studies of the application of the Samuelson hypothesis to index futures , Park and Sears ( 1985 ) , Sherrick , Irwin and Forster ( 1992 ) and Han and Misra ( 1990 ) ( using implied volatilities ) , and Twite ( 1990c ) ( using historic closing prices to estimate volatility ) found evidence contradicting the Samuelson hypothesis . |
| 19 | Harry drew breath to deny the slur , and then said nothing after all , seeing in his heart that it was true enough . |
| 20 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |
| 21 | Desperately she used logic to deny the miracle that had transformed her . |
| 22 | This stone built hotel has the reputation of being well run and offers light , spacious rooms . |
| 23 | George beckoned and I followed through a door into the heat of the rear section of the engines , the section containing among other things the boiler which provided steam to heat the whole train . |
| 24 | M M My Lords , erm on the second point my Noble Friend makes , that 's absolutely true and it really was again quite depressing to see that erm er a member in in in the and the other place Mr Don Foster on behalf of the Liberals , had actually written to every single Chief Education Officer er concerning anti er concerning campaigning against er the opting out policy , as to the other point my Noble Friend makes , it 's absolutely true that erm all the service that have been done and there 's one very recently reported , that the amount of value for money o obtained for every single grant maintained school outstrips the L E A maintained schools . |
| 25 | Yet in spite of the rush , all the officers found time to attend the wedding of their engineer , the cheerful Bill Cumper . |
| 26 | And still he found time to heal the sick . |
| 27 | Despite Desert Orchid 's star status , he still found time to welcome the smallest horse in the world who was peeping through the crush of onlookers . |
| 28 | Gregory the Great found time to designate the varieties most appropriate to the different orders of the Hierarchy of Heaven — sard for Seraphim , topaz for Cherubim , jasper for Thrones , chrysolite for Dominions , onyx for Principalities , beryl for Powers , sapphire for Virtues , carbuncle for Archangels and emerald for Angels . |
| 29 | When Congress assembled the Speaker of the House of Representatives asked Hall to give the opening prayer and on a Sunday he preached before both Houses in the Capitol building . |
| 30 | Taylor , now a butcher in Liverpool , has admitted he never requested , or received permission to make the recording . |