Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day Mr Brownlow asked him to come to his study for a little talk . |
| 2 | The IMF 's satisfaction with Jordan 's continued implementation of economic restructuring programmes led it to approve on July 14 , 1989 , a financial package of 76,600,000 special drawing rights ( approximately US$96,000,000 ) . |
| 3 | I felt as if half of Sheffield expected us to get to Wembley so it is a relief that we 've actually done it . ’ |
| 4 | Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 5 | Now , the topic that Sheila asked me to talk about was skin care . |
| 6 | St Mawgan Radar asked us to climb to 2500 feet through the MATZ . |
| 7 | Caduta asked me to come to an address in Little Italy at two o'clock that afternoon . |
| 8 | Mr Taylor claimed Murray asked him to go to Carlisle to get him some ‘ gear ’ and after some pestering , he agreed . |
| 9 | As always with Mussorgsky , and never more so than in the case of this opera , the issues are complicated ; and though most of the work 's admirer 's would now agree that Shostakovich 's orchestration is closer to the spirit of a composer he deeply admired than that of Rimsky-Korsakov , whose admiration led him to wish to ‘ sell ’ the work in the West , there are reservations to be made . |
| 10 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 11 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 12 | Dušan 's ambition led him to aspire to the throne of Byzantium . |
| 13 | Marie asked me to look after Satan , and I suppose that makes him mine now . |
| 14 | After we had spoken , the women in the market restaurants invited us to eat with them and that was how the Sonsonate branch was born . |
| 15 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 16 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 17 | Good manners forbade you to riffle through the pile , lift the layers until you found one you liked the look of . |
| 18 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
| 19 | For all that , his ineptitude caused him to fly into rages . |
| 20 | His blue eyes implored her to take off the gag . |
| 21 | ‘ Pertwee told me to wait for Charlie Hatton , ’ Cullam said . |
| 22 | You 'd dock my pay soon enough if I did n't do everything you and Matey ordered me to do in my waking hours . ’ |
| 23 | Once , the script required him to jump through a plate-glass window . |
| 24 | New regulations for setting up political parties required them to register with the government for a year , have at least five elected office holders , and own property of more than 10,000,000 New Taiwan dollars . |
| 25 | Mr Notice , 32 , of Welling , Kent , undefeated before detached retinas forced him to retire from the ring , appeared before a special magistrates ' court in Reigate , Surrey . |
| 26 | The fact that Nikon overreached himself was clearly exposed when Tsar Alexis forced him to withdraw from public affairs and subsequently had him deposed and replaced by a more pliant successor . |
| 27 | He did not yet know whether Edward wished him to bring to Wales any of his nobles of Champagne to serve there . |
| 28 | Even though their losses forced them to merge before the end of the year , the assumptions on which TV had been organized could never be quite the same again . |
| 29 | Branson held her to contract for five more months , preventing her from working anywhere else , until he decided it was unreasonable to hold her any longer , and she was at last able to find work elsewhere in the record industry . |
| 30 | Typical of the electric effects are the advertising blimp — Scott wanted it to look like his memories from earliest childhood of wartime barrage balloons — and the many neon signs , particularly the giant billboard screen showing an oriental girl . |