Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 2 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 3 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 5 | At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour . |
| 6 | On Oct. 20 the ANC and PAC excluded AZAPO from the convening committee of the conference , but invited it to participate in the meeting . |
| 7 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 8 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | ‘ He told me to stay in the house — not to go out . ’ |
| 10 | Francis told me to stay in the cabana while you were there 'cause you were his wife . |
| 11 | And er he apparently told her to sit in the car while he finished his |
| 12 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 13 | He told her to look in the table drawer in the living-room — he thought there might be a spare drying-up cloth in it . |
| 14 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 15 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 16 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
| 17 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 18 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 19 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 20 | However , ‘ Capitalism and its attendant , the modern State , effected everywhere a widening of the cultural community in that it freed the masses from the fetters of an all-powerful tradition and called them to participate in the regeneration of a national culture ’ . |
| 21 | His body clock free-ran so that on occasions he was the victim of a clash between an internal cause — which thought it was night and wanted him to sleep — and an external cause , society — which required him to work in the ( real ) daytime . |
| 22 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 23 | This qualified her to play in the Scottish final at the new course at Westerwood , Cumbernauld . |
| 24 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 25 | ‘ The terrible stress and strain of his job and the society 's problems were factors which sadly led him to behave in the way he did . ’ |
| 26 | At one time , he even dominated Mot , the surly god of death , and banished him to exile in the desert . |
| 27 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 28 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 29 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 30 | It was that independence which enabled us to participate in the Gulf war and to initiate the Falklands conflict without having to secure the agreement of our 11 Community colleagues . |