Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 2 | Having recovered the sail , we made them bleed the line . |
| 3 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
| 4 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 5 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 6 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
| 7 | Strings were apparently omitted since the small scale ( the whole box is less than 16″x9″ ) made them look a bit stupid . |
| 8 | Peterborough made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 9 | At the end of the day , however , Celtic just about deserved their triumph , though Dundee made them fight every inch of the way . |
| 10 | So the challenging headline " our creams and lotions are all used up " made them read the rest of the copy . |
| 11 | In fact we expected them to solve the problem for us . |
| 12 | However , seeing as I was in Rosslare that day , it amused me to keep an eye out for the car he 'd described . |
| 13 | The growing materialism of the age led them to envisage the hereafter as the eternal ‘ Now ’ , and depict survival in terms of the senses . |
| 14 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 15 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 16 | Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian . |
| 17 | The young Royals flocked to Edina Ronay , along with customers from the world of showbusiness such as Marlon Brando who commissioned them to knit a sweater . |
| 18 | The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people . |
| 19 | ‘ Michael was anxious to get it sorted out and asked me to arrange the wedding . ’ |
| 20 | He asked me to hold the coffee up to his lips and I was gone . |
| 21 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 22 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 23 | ‘ John asked me to do a job for him first . ’ |
| 24 | You asked me to do the Wigan archiving |
| 25 | He asked me to compile a list of suspects , however improbable . |
| 26 | He asked me to take a message to the Blackpool Conference conveying to the delegates that he felt that he could not lead the Party at the General Election , and inviting those whose business it was to do so , to take soundings about the future leadership . |
| 27 | So , when one of Ramon 's friends asked me to take a package to a friend of his in Berlin , I thought , well , I can make up that I have a job and cut my visit short because of it . |
| 28 | He asked me to take a seat and listen to some music he would put on . |
| 29 | As soon as Ken Hurren mentioned the word in his office this morning , when he asked me to take the task on , I felt a secret dismay . |
| 30 | They asked me to take the children for a full medical . |