Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Was this what erm led you to join the Labour Party ? |
| 32 | Yesterday , we asked you to name the Hindu God of Love . |
| 33 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 34 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 35 | Their affinity with the right rather than the left allowed them to overlook the genuine nature of the fascist threat . |
| 36 | They reconstructed their Y6N17 compositions from averages of microprobe data and modal analyses of three groundmass minerals , including albite ( see figure ) , asserting that this technique allowed them to avoid the contaminating effects of xenoliths and secondary mineralization that pervade the sample . |
| 37 | He encouraged them to tackle the widespread Highland areas still under survey so that maps and memoirs could be published in an organised manner . |
| 38 | He should not be named , but he begged me to tell the outside world of the appalling situation where the wounded are dying unnecessarily because the UN are refusing to transport the wounded out of the city . ’ |
| 39 | He 'd limped along under some EEC scheme which paid you to employ the unemployable until the equipment had vanished overnight and BDM became Bankrupt , Desperate and Melancholy . |
| 40 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 41 | In a sense Lecercle ( whose own name doubtless encouraged him to consider the surplus meanings language provides ) is sticking up for parole , the language as she is spoke ( or written ) . |
| 42 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 43 | Then , in the last four years of her life , working with a small devoted group of students and collaborators , she succeeded in obtaining spectacular X-ray patterns of the virus that allowed her to determine the precise helical geometry of the protein sub-units , and , above all , to show that the ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) of the virus — the carrier of the genetic information , and hence the infectivity — formed a long single chain embedded deeply within the protein framework . |
| 44 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 45 | Polygnotos , it is clear from Pausanias 's description , took two important steps which allowed him to express the classical spirit without the constrictions of the archaic tradition . |
| 46 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 47 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
| 48 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 49 | Those who are inclined towards reform reversal , place much more weight on the way the long dominance of the Conservative LDP party allowed it to pack the Supreme Court with its own nominees , so that the independence of the Judiciary is a myth . |
| 50 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 51 | I listened closely to what he had to say , but I then pressed him to name the best-known avant-garde artists for me . |
| 52 | Ellen , who was utterly delighted with her achievement , followed him to spray the churning mess over his hair , then down on to the decks of Dream Baby as Sweetman jumped panic-stricken from our gunwale . |
| 53 | Your editorial on page one of the Summer 1991 issue prompted me to record the following thoughts which have a direct bearing on the subject of active participation . |
| 54 | Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single . |
| 55 | The majority in the snail darter case thought that the best interpretation of the convention about statutes required them to enforce the literal meaning of the Environmental Protection Act unless it could be proved that Congress intended otherwise . |
| 56 | The days have long passed when the courts adopted a strict constructionist view of interpretation which required them to adopt the literal meaning of the language . |
| 57 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 58 | Sandra began collecting several years ago after a large repair bill for a timepiece prompted her to learn the intricate ins and outs of their workings . |
| 59 | Aung San travelled separately from the others , stopping over in Delhi to confer with Nehru who warned him to examine the British proposal ‘ with particular care … and not to be caught by it as I was ’ . |
| 60 | Wolfgang intended to write an opera for Paris , but Leopold warned him to study the national taste first , since his reputation would hang on his first piece . |