Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 2 | She went back to the gallery , furious , shut the door , pulled down the blind , and those other guests still inside helped her to remove the paintings from the walls . |
| 3 | Then he suddenly told me to fetch the chopper from the cellar . |
| 4 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 5 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
| 6 | She perhaps wanted me to inherit the dark old house and to marry Estella . |
| 7 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 8 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 9 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 10 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 11 | No I just told him to revise the er the cycle of the engine . |
| 12 | Yeah I just told her to put the top on the pen when she was having a drink , because she had the pen in her hand |
| 13 | She drifted pleasantly away , finding herself at the theatre with Kate Maybury , but she had black hair and carried a colander , and in the colander lay a tiny baby , but Mrs Maybury would n't let her see it , just told her to watch the show . |
| 14 | But her instincts no longer warned her to escape the hunter . |
| 15 | Throughout the day there was torrential rain , but despite this everybody mucked in ( literally ) and worked very hard until late in the afternoon when the weather finally forced us to stop the good work . |
| 16 | I desperately wanted him to see the right ‘ way to go ’ . |
| 17 | Suddenly she desperately wanted him to know the truth . |
| 18 | He had never understood why Morse almost always expected him to buy the beer . |
| 19 | In the course of their many arguments , Amanda once asked him to consider the domestic condition of the Fergusson family , who lived together with strong bonds of affection , and declare whether they too were the consequence of chaos , hazard and malice . |
| 20 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 21 | This gave the borough a corporate personality at law , with the right to sue and be sued , and also empowered it to exclude the shire officials and be directly responsible to the central government . |
| 22 | The Member for Ogmore also asked me to consider the question of enforcement . |
| 23 | We also asked them to name the party they thought best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , and for the unemployed . |
| 24 | Her letter also asked them to reimburse the clamping fee , postage costs and compensation for her ‘ time and distress ’ . |
| 25 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 26 | Guppy later told him to close the account because of worries about possible criminal action . |
| 27 | Getting more information on comparative performance also enabled them to ask the right questions , although it also demonstrated the continuing inadequacies of data . |
| 28 | This also enabled us to examine the accuracy of OPCS data concerning the diagnosis of liver disease . |
| 29 | It also enabled us to extend the survey to include Oxford matriculants between 1970 and 1979 , so that our 10% sample now covers the c.170,000 individuals who attended the university between 1900 and 1979 . |
| 30 | So Mr Tomlinson kept the 24v wiring and also extended it to power the worklights on the front and rear of the cab . |