Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see his identification . |
| 2 | ‘ Asked to see his driving licence . ’ |
| 3 | The move comes after nearly one in four of BR 's routes failed to hit their performance targets under John Major 's new Citizen 's Charter . |
| 4 | The chartbustin' all-girl band planned to invest their pop earnings in a beauty salon . |
| 5 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 6 | His widow , Jeanne , held the Joinvilles ' English lands but , like Aymer de Valence , agreed to renounce her claim to a part of the Lusignan inheritance ( 1308–10 ) , although she held four Poitevin and Limousin lordships in reversion until her death in April 1323 . |
| 7 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 8 | In his day Wilson was very conscious of some of the injustices from which the weavers suffered , and through his pen he sought to champion their cause . |
| 9 | The University Labour Federation failed to carry its motion to reject the report . |
| 10 | In due course the bank sought to enforce its security . |
| 11 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 12 | Does the Secretary of State agree with Duncan McNeill , whom he appointed to promote his hospital trusts , that trust status provides an alternative to operating and remaining within the mainstream national health service ? |
| 13 | It is necessary for the plaintiff to establish that the train that caused the damage was the train that failed to sound its whistle . |
| 14 | A preliminary hearing in Birmingham yesterday rejected a company claim that the four failed to lodge their case within the required three-month period . |
| 15 | A creditor who failed to lodge his proof before an interim dividend was declared is not entitled to disturb that interim distribution but is entitled to receive a payment in priority to other creditors from further funds as available ; similarly a creditor whose proof is increased after an interim dividend has been declared . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , I agreed to carry his bag like a shot , and the Irish golfer gave me some very basic instruction in my duties over a couple of pints of the dark stuff from his native land . |
| 17 | This was an obvious choice made to evade her concern . |
| 18 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 19 | Thomas had experienced learning difficulties since he was five , but experts used by his local authority failed to spot his dyslexia . |
| 20 | Provisional terms were agreed , but the club failed to confirm its agreement to proceed . |
| 21 | After watching several performances he approached Ray and asked to paint his portrait . |
| 22 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 23 | The woman looked around the yard as if she expected to see her daughter emerge from one of the doors or from behind a pile of rubbish . |
| 24 | I must say I expected to see my sister accuse Orlick of attacking her , but instead she seemed very pleased to see him . |
| 25 | At 7.25 p.m. he finally got to see his solicitor . |
| 26 | Now , I 'd let someone else do it , whilst I checked to see what window I could jump out of ! ) |
| 27 | Tom caught my eye behind her back and winked to acknowledge my presence on alien territory . |
| 28 | Mr Endara said he planned to continue his hunger strike to support a civil disobedience campaign to press General Noriega to step down . |
| 29 | Once he dared to knock on Emmett 's door late at night and asked to borrow his dress suit . |
| 30 | Rindi , whose crew possessed only pressurized paraffin-lamps , asked to borrow our torch , and revealed with it a patch of silt floor a good thirty feet further down , as untrammelled as the bottom of the deep ocean trenches — except for the unmistakable tyre-tracks of several large pythons . |