Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 2 | They were also concerned that their Equal Opportunities policies should apply to all funded groups , and their awareness of the multi-faceted discrimination experienced by black lesbians and gays led them to fund the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre Project . |
| 3 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 4 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) asked me to consider the standard spending assessments . |
| 6 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 7 | So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days . |
| 8 | Her letter also asked them to reimburse the clamping fee , postage costs and compensation for her ‘ time and distress ’ . |
| 9 | His persuasion , combined with recurring unemployed demonstrations , moved them to introduce the Unemployed Workmen Act 1905 . |
| 10 | One day the King invited me to watch the regular entertainments , which are greatly enjoyed by him , his family , and his lords and ladies . |
| 11 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 12 | Sleeman 's Indian journeys , his great interest in local customs and religious beliefs , his explorations of temples and ruins wherever he went in pre-Mutiny India , helped me to see the Irish as an Indo-European people . |
| 13 | The fact that he was such an emotional mess helped me to keep the necessary distance . |
| 14 | Staff sponsored them to wear the furry animal costumes to raise funds for the ‘ Make A Wish Appeal ’ which makes dreams come true for sick children . |
| 15 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 16 | He pushed one of the doors open and invited her to enter the pretty pink and white room . |
| 17 | Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each . |
| 18 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 19 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 20 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 21 | Despite the recession this helped us to retain the vast majority of our members and welcome new ones to our ranks . |
| 22 | She advised me to ring the free 0800 number in London . |
| 23 | Carver knew for a fact that Hauser had a collection of Roosevelt film clips , that he studied them to perfect the famous American president 's mannerisms . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She told me to get the small details right from the start — things like hair , clothes , likes and dislikes — because it 's the small details that define an individual . ’ |
| 26 | I told you to keep the new ones separate . |
| 27 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 28 | Mr Byron Butler , 52 , the chairman , told him to make the necessary adjustments out of court before proceeding with sentencing in a drink-drive case . |
| 29 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |
| 30 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |