Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 8 | The centre helped him to get professional help . |
| 9 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 10 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 11 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 12 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 13 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 14 | But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things . |
| 15 | This caused me to regrade double jacquard . |
| 16 | As I opened the case I heard a groaning , splintering noise , which caused me to experience extreme pain as the bridge flew off and whacked me on the side of the head ! |
| 17 | A massive security operation has been mounted in the city and United Nations offices in New Delhi have cancelled visits by foreign staff , banned field trips by local personnel and advised them to avoid crowded places . |
| 18 | Spenser certainly found ready contemporary imitators , most noticeably among fellow poets such as Barnabe Rich or Sir John Davies whose interest in Irish affairs also provoked them to write political tracts . |
| 19 | Following the appointment of the first Minister of Town and Country Planning in 1943 , the government committed itself to create National Parks . |
| 20 | Accepting that contracted beds are a cost-effective , client-oriented solution , the Medway Health Authority committed itself to inspect nursing homes , monitoring standards and promoting good practice through a contractual process in addition to the statutory inspection and registration requirements . |
| 21 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 22 | The side letter advised her to take independent advice . |
| 23 | This caused him to invent Ambivalent Music , which you ca n't quite tell if you are listening to or not ( see Ambulance house music … ) |
| 24 | Just told her to take light clothes . ’ |
| 25 | I told her to forget bloody implants , what would her babies think ? |
| 26 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 27 | These budgets allowed them to maintain pre-existing activity and referral patterns and have resulted in massive variations in per capita allocations between fundholders . |
| 28 | the empire we allowed them to have British passports did n't we ? |
| 29 | But as European and Japanese business turned their attention to the US market their relatively low wage costs allowed them to make substantial inroads . |
| 30 | Theorists can now solve the problems of solid-state physics in terms of the local structure , whereas previously they could deal only with materials where the complete structure was periodic and crystalline symmetry allowed them to make colossal simplifications . |