Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus three core manufacturing technologies have been brought into play in a single product to enable ICI to fill a gap . |
| 2 | The chairman , Gubby Allen , asked Washbrook to leave the room , then argued fiercely with the new young captain , Peter May . |
| 3 | Some bizarre quirk led Newman to take a route back to London past the bell tower where Sandy had died . |
| 4 | If you ever asked Ian to keep a debate going in committee ( while the front bench caught up ) he would do so to order and with a style 1 have never seen equalled . |
| 5 | The 18th saw Sigel , who in his time has won 15 United States titles , miss the green , miss a little chip and miss a putt , allowing Milligan to halve the hole with a bogey five . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be better if I asked Marie-Christine to point the way , Uncle Gaston , if that 's what you wish . ’ |
| 7 | George does n't want Wright to become a burden to the team . |
| 8 | To hide his fear he asked Zach to tell a joke and do his funny buffalo step . |
| 9 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 10 | He later asked Scott to design a suburb of working-class housing , known as Akroydon , near Halifax , which was eventually taken over by Scott 's former pupil W. H. Crossland . |
| 11 | He attempted to interest the producer Dino de Laurentis in using Oldfield to score the film Dune , but de Laurentis declined even to see them . |
| 12 | He asked Ramsey to telephone an answer , next morning . |
| 13 | The Mugen-Honda V10 engine , currently used by Footwork , is an evolution of the Honda power-unit which helped McLaren to claim the world championships in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 14 | We used PCR to examine a range of tissues and cell lines for Oct-11 expression . |
| 15 | Taking off the net , Robert felt the reflexes then examined the arm and drew Sophie to inspect the damage . |
| 16 | When everyone else had gone , Gabriel helped Lucie to mend the cart 's wheel . |
| 17 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 18 | Six of the Whitleys were to carry the men — thirty five paratroops of No. 2 Commando — and the other two to bomb Foggia to create a diversion . |
| 19 | Being so preoccupied with her child helped Sarah to ignore the change in her husband . |
| 20 | Another used Federconsorzi to defraud a state scheme that paid farmers to destroy their surplus output . |
| 21 | As the ageing Comet hopped from Lyneham , to Cyprus , to North Africa and onwards , the captain invited Howerd to visit the flight deck . |
| 22 | At the age of 75 , Olivier visited Richard to see a play he was directing and attended a midnight student production he had put on in a Hollywood garage with other students . |
| 23 | To encourage LEAs to accelerate the reduction of places the DES issued another circular in 1981 ( DES , 1981 ) which asked the LEAs to inform the DES how they intended reducing the number of places available . |
| 24 | Eventually Dad phoned Eva to say the coast was clear . |
| 25 | Head of the school Mike McKechnie later visited Shanghai to seal a friendship agreement and discuss the course content , a scaled down but otherwise authentic version of that taught at the institute . |
| 26 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 27 | The defendants had in the course of their employment visited Paris to assess the feasibility of opening Bureaux de Change in France . |
| 28 | PORTADOWN centre-forward Stevie Cowan made history today at Shamrock Park as his club defeated Cliftonville to remain a point behind Linfield in this fascinating Irish League championship . |
| 29 | Their motive would be much the same as that of an English sportsman who visited Africa to shoot a lion and , like him , they preferred to take their quarry unawares . |
| 30 | Zaire 's elite presidential guard , under the direct control of President Mobutu Sese Seko , helped Unita to capture the oil town of Soyo last month , the source claimed . |