Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 2 | The anxiety of the Tsar and Tsarina to shield their haemophiliac son led them to withdraw into a narrow family circle , incurring the displeasure of members of high society . |
| 3 | The idea of a one-woman tribute was conceived five years ago , when larger-than-life director Bryan Izzard asked me to contribute to a Channel Four programme on the monologue called The Eye Of The Little Yellow Dog , starring , amongst others , the late Leonard Rossiter , Cilla Black , Alec McCowen , Diane Langton , Anita Harris and Ronald Lacey . |
| 4 | Caduta asked me to come to an address in Little Italy at two o'clock that afternoon . |
| 5 | I could understand the term ‘ genetic engineering ’ — well , as long as nobody asked me to speak for a minute without hesitation or deviation — and I recognized ‘ DNA ’ , which was said to be the basic stuff of life . |
| 6 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 7 | The band formed a friendship with NME journalist Neil Taylor , and he asked them to appear on a label he was starting called City Slang . |
| 8 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 9 | It was her that invited me to play for a keep fit class . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament . |
| 11 | He practically invited you to go for a ride in his car . |
| 12 | We invited you to highlight from a list of adjectives how best you would describe our tuition services . |
| 13 | She dismissed him to silence with a wave of a narrow , fleshless arm . |
| 14 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 15 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 16 | The outside world first became aware of the word ‘ orang-utan ’ in 1641 , when a Dutchman called Nicholas Tulp used it to refer to an ape brought to Europe . |
| 17 | ‘ I decided to go to a financial adviser , ’ continues Angie , ‘ He advised me to remortgage with a lender with a lower standard rate and for £20,000 more than we had originally borrowed when we bought the house . |
| 18 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 19 | I 've seen the Fire guys and they told me to ask for an Inspector Ball . |
| 20 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 21 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 22 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 23 | A sudden commotion behind her caused her to start as a voice called urgently , stridently , ‘ Special edition . |
| 24 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 25 | The thought caused her to quiver with a surge of jealousy that swept through her with frightening force . |
| 26 | Modi told her to put on a tightly fitted black silk dress . |
| 27 | This was a pool hall expression alluding to a cue ball played with side , or spin , which caused it to behave in a deceptive way . |
| 28 | Twenty years ago we were thrilled when our accountant advised us to move into a larger house in order to qualify for a much higher tax exemption on our mortgage . |
| 29 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 30 | When Dr Prentice asked you to pose as a woman did he give a reason ? |