Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | Twenty-four black militant organisations were subjected to ‘ tax surveillance ’ as part of International Revenue Service ( IRS ) harassment , and FBI agents placed bogus documents into the hands of Panther members which led them to suspect each other of being police informants ( McAdam and Moore , 1989:281 ) . |
| 3 | the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce . |
| 4 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 5 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 7 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 8 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 9 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 11 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 12 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 13 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 14 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 15 | She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer . |
| 16 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 17 | It led me to ponder two questions . |
| 18 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
| 19 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 20 | He went in to his bank and got them to print new cheque-books , and instead of signing ‘ N.O. Russell ’ , he now signed ‘ Oliver Russell ’ . |
| 21 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 22 | Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question . |
| 23 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 24 | However , a more careful analysis of methods of work and recreation in the Easter vac helped me to overcome these problems and be more in charge of myself , rather than being tossed about at random . |
| 25 | Mr Allen Abramson , a London University anthropologist who has studied initiation rituals , said that most societies used them to mark important developments in a person 's life , and that they often involved pain or privation . |
| 26 | Thus , in Dorchester Finance Company Ltd v Stebbing , two non-executive directors were held to have been negligent in equipping an executive director with signed blank cheques who used them to make unrecoverable loans . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 28 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 29 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 30 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |