Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the Ostarbeiters , intelligent and educated , and set to work as labourers , made to wear a badge . |
| 2 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 3 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 4 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 5 | Leeds Crown Court was hearing a statement about the reaction of a porter who found her body when Robin Pask asked to see a doctor . |
| 6 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 7 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 8 | Marjorie steeled herself , asked to see the vet again , and said she would stay while Lizzie was put to sleep . |
| 9 | She asked to see the daughter of the house . |
| 10 | The more the searcher asked to see the daughter , the more the daughter was hidden until that planned moment of ‘ chance ’ arrived when all was revealed , and all was , as my young Sheikh would have said , ‘ perfectly well ’ . |
| 11 | He asked to see the officer involved in the investigation of the earlier charge . |
| 12 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 13 | Standing waiting in the yard , while another pony was being saddled , Gabriel asked to see the monastery chapel . |
| 14 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I was n't going to tell you this , but I went to the bank and asked to see the Manager . |
| 16 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 17 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 18 | I was told I was getting a direct order , but I refused to pack and asked to see the governor . |
| 19 | The contributors , Roman Catholic priests and TM teachers among them , sought to harmonise the teaching of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with their own views of Christianity . |
| 20 | ‘ For external short courses ... staff usually asked to attend a course … for internal courses participants usually volunteer or are recommended to attend for personal development . |
| 21 | John McCarthy asked to attend the service . |
| 22 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 23 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 24 | She knew that Sarah planned to wear a midnight blue taffeta dress , with silver sandals and her mother 's diamante clips and fur cape . |
| 25 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
| 26 | He again failed to acknowledge the part that he could play in reducing the odds which are stacked against women and shackle them in the way that he described . |
| 27 | For a time the company failed to acknowledge the problem until the numbers began to be serious , at which time the management decided to ‘ regroup , become leaner , and work differently . ’ |
| 28 | The SNC agreed to issue an appeal to the UN Secretary-General proposing the quick dispatch of the first group of troops of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) . |
| 29 | This time he sought to expunge every trace of Existentialism , but retained much of the material from the first draft , including the elements mentioned above . |
| 30 | However , she also agreed to attend a conjoint session with her parents the next week . |