Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 2 | In these cases , financial security , a reluctance to move to a new employer , and proximity to the statutory pension age , coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working , led them to opt for early retirement . |
| 3 | Over the past ten years local authorities have moved away from the model which led them to act as direct providers of public services . |
| 4 | The whole crew landed safely at Aberdeen at the end of August 1882 , having survived the winter because lack of provisions led them to live on fresh meat , thus avoiding scurvy , and because of Smith 's quiet leadership . |
| 5 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 6 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 7 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 8 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 9 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 10 | Finally , I think the issue which more than any other led me to break with pure separatism , was women 's compassion . |
| 11 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 12 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 13 | In our 1979 main survey , we asked a series of important questions to discover how people were influenced by the disclosure of either APR or the total credit cost , or both , when we asked them to choose between rival credit terms . |
| 14 | The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew . |
| 15 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 16 | ‘ Lustig ’ is the quality missing here but , having said that , I found plenty to enjoy in this seldom aired repertory . |
| 17 | By the end of the evening Laura had shaken everybody 's hand and found something to say to each one . |
| 18 | She helped herself to trifle with splendid insouciance . |
| 19 | He spread his hands wide in a gesture of incomprehension and invited her to make of this unexpected turn of events what she could . |
| 20 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 21 | Look how much it cost us to go to that bloody restaurant with Chris and Keith |
| 22 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 23 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
| 24 | The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained . |
| 25 | My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed . |
| 26 | There seemed nothing to say to this . |
| 27 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 28 | All those to , yeah well I told you to put in this morning . |
| 29 | She clutched the doll to her heart , and told herself to think of poor dead Effie whose fate had been so much worse than her own , and that should teach her to count her blessings as her dear aunt Nella had always said . |
| 30 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |