Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 2 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 3 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 4 | Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian . |
| 5 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 6 | It seems that the main annalist 's fondness for tales of woe in this case led him to distort the facts , or that he was misled by sources which did so . |
| 7 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 8 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 9 | ‘ The traders asked us to regenerate the area and the first thing they do is criticise , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Peach had an intuitive genius for discerning geological structures : what he saw on a mountainside led him to visualize the arrangement of the rocks below . |
| 11 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 13 | The existing clients helped us to raise the money and went round their relatives . |
| 14 | Her sympathy for Mrs Wallington helped her to ignore the realisation that it was an enormous relief to be away from Anthony and with people who produced an atmosphere of such calm and ease that she felt immediately at home with them . |
| 15 | Making their way through the extensive 4th floor they were stopped when a massive explosive caused them to hit the floor . |
| 16 | She rushed to obey , fumbling about hopelessly until her dazed mind ordered her to put the light on . |
| 17 | An examination of the curricula of twenty LEAs enabled me to discover the word ‘ death ’ to be included in a third of the schemes for the different age groups from 7 to 14 , although tucked away beneath such general headings as ‘ Beliefs , Practices , Customs and Artefacts ’ ; ‘ Rites of Passage ( e.g. Initiation through Baptism , Burial Rites ’ ) ; ‘ Self-understanding ( e.g. Integrity , Pride , Humility , Loneliness , Suffering , Bereavement and Death ’ ) . |
| 18 | Ken persuaded him to cut the portions he was making for Orton and himself into three . |
| 19 | Cricket and Empire started life as film research commissioned by David Puttnam for a film on Bodyline that was never made — losing out to the unintentionally funny Australian TV mini-series many readers will remember from the early 1980s : ‘ David wanted me to find the ‘ smoking gun ’ . |
| 20 | I told him our plan but he was none too eager until I told him we were going to play at funerals and that Frankie wanted him to imitate the preacher ; then he came along at once . |
| 21 | The distrust which Dicey felt concerning this tendency of party government to destroy the balance of parliamentary institutions caused him to advocate the use of various institutional control devices . |
| 22 | Nicandra screamed at her , while some mortal sympathy forbade her to hunt the bird from her barren nest . |
| 23 | Crossing in Force 9 winds led me to lament the absence of a grab-rail in the shower . |
| 24 | Ana just drifted to a halt , turning without demur as Maggie moved her to face the house . |
| 25 | The fact that he was such an emotional mess helped me to keep the necessary distance . |
| 26 | The availability of novel , relatively specific antagonists of the 5HT receptor subtypes allowed us to evaluate the mechanism of 5HT induced acceleration of ICJ transit . |
| 27 | These peptide motifs allowed us to search the sequences of known P. falciparum antigens for potential epitopes for HLA-B53 and -B35 . |
| 28 | Phil said how much he enjoyed the day , and how breaking his own sales barriers allowed him to break the sound barrier . |
| 29 | David Allen was so devoted to his project he dared take Lord Hanson to court , where the judge ordered him to destroy the weir he built on the river Winterbourne in Berkshire . |
| 30 | Your editorial on page one of the Summer 1991 issue prompted me to record the following thoughts which have a direct bearing on the subject of active participation . |