Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 2 | Allen , in turn , took Coleridge to Balliol to introduce him to a young radical and poet called Robert Southey , who was then almost twenty years old . |
| 3 | Despite some misgivings , he persuaded Tom Gray to accompany him on a wander to a nearby burial ground , Lying on top of a heap of bones , ‘ almost asking to be taken , was a femur . |
| 4 | The rank is unique to the RUC , and a proposal by Sir Hugh to abolish it in a restructuring package he put to the Police Authority two years ago caused anger within senior members of the force . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've no doubt he 'll ask Dr Curtis to admit her to a cardiac ward . ’ |
| 6 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |
| 7 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 8 | Feeling a little dizzy at being caught in the whirlwind of Faye 's enthusiasm , and wondering if she was just imagining a slightly brittle , overwrought quality to it this morning , Belinda listened to several more of Faye 's ideas for ‘ Getting Tom to notice you as a woman ’ . |
| 9 | Annabel tried to persuade Stephen to join her on a bright-blue canvas swing seat with Charlie . |
| 10 | His election on three separate occasions as MP for Middlesex in 1768–69 , and the repeated refusals of the House of Commons to admit him as a member , did much to stimulate in London the current of political radicalism which was later to run so strongly there . |
| 11 | Georgiades had asked Owen to meet him at a donkey-vous beside the Ezbekiya Gardens . |
| 12 | Well , that 's not how schoolboys talk , so they sneered some more and waited for Oliver to challenge them to a formal fight . |
| 13 | But it was their home … inviting Guy Sterne to use it as a convenient guest-house was like flinging open the drawbridge to the enemy … |
| 14 | Roberts took his tally for the season to 150 with a treble on Carousel Music , True Story and Shuailaan at Windsor , only for Lloyd to rob him of a four-timer by beating him on Brigante Di Cielo . |
| 15 | And if I did , why would I send her all the way down to Somerset to take you to a cricket match ? ’ |
| 16 | It is her garden that now absorbs much of C.Z. 's time and it was a logical step for Bowles and photographer Pamela Hanson to use it as a setting for their fashion story ( p 162 ) , highlighting some of the key ideas for the season . |
| 17 | St Augustine similarly asked God to keep him in a " chaste desire " during sleep , and protect him from dreams which , " owing to animal images " , might lead him " to pollution " . |
| 18 | Knowing her fear of the sea they had invariably travelled by air : to Switzerland for ski-ing , to the States , when she had got leave from Brentwoods to accompany him on a kind of working-holiday . |
| 19 | Whatever the meaning for those twelve disciples on that short mission ( and the Spirit may well have come upon them temporarily as he did upon the Old Testament of God to equip them for a special purpose ) , it is hard to mistake the shadow this event casts towards the time of the Church , when men sent out by Jesus ( ‘ sent one' is the root meaning of the word ‘ apostle ’ ) would be equipped by the Spirit given them by Jesus , for carrying out Jesus ' own mission in the world . |
| 20 | Her father , a greengrocer , had stabled the pony behind the shop in the middle of town , fed it on sprouts and boiled potatoes and encouraged Nutty to turn it into a show-jumper . |
| 21 | Besides making crude available under various arrangements to enable Iraq to meet contractual commitments to deliver in the Gulf , Riyadh entered into arrangements with Iraq to provide it with a means of moving its southern oil to the Red Sea . |
| 22 | The first chance fell to Barlaston 's Brooks , who hesitated on the edge of the penalty area allowing Devall to deny him with a crucial tackle . |
| 23 | Such a draconian policy would both weaken Germany and provide resources ( especially coal ) to France to transform her into a heavy-industrial power . |
| 24 | He defaced the typewriter keys with a file and made a special trip to Hertfordshire to drop it in a reservoir . |
| 25 | If I say no you 'll think I persuaded Peter to marry me as a sort of grab-it-quick opportunity that might not come again ! ’ |
| 26 | France also persuaded the United States and Britain to join it in a joint declaration that a threat to the EDC would be treated as a challenge to their own security , and that this would be symbolised by the two Anglo-Saxon countries agreeing to station troops on the continent . |
| 27 | At the end of April 1973 I went to see the King of Morocco to tell him about a plot to kill him . |
| 28 | He had his living to make and he came to Port Talbot to make it as a teacher . |
| 29 | She needed Julius to make her into a complete person . |
| 30 | Luke states that Jesus refused to allow Judas to greet him with a kiss . |