Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masson was the pioneer of Afghan archaeology and numismatics , although he lacked the knowledge fully to interpret his discoveries . |
| 2 | Following completion of his second successful landing of the day at 15:00 hours , officials made the decision not to risk any further deliveries on April 7 . |
| 3 | Organisers Editions Larivière says it made the decision not to proceed ‘ for its own reasons ’ . |
| 4 | It could then be only too convenient if the Secretary of State made the decision not to investigate the accident . |
| 5 | The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend . |
| 6 | As with all special paints , read the label carefully to determine how and where it should be used . |
| 7 | He only asked the vicar not to use Hail Marys with the Stations . |
| 8 | Emily asked the Princess not to look at the work in progress , ‘ and she was very good about it . |
| 9 | That 's why I asked the doctor here to come along . |
| 10 | Having had a small suitcase packed weeks ago , she alerted the maternity wing of the clinic in which she was booked , asked the receptionist downstairs to get her a taxi and took herself off there as if the early arrival of babies was an everyday occurrence in her life . |
| 11 | During his time at the BBC , when the Home Secretary , Leon Brittan , asked the Corporation not to show a documentary in the Real Lives series dealing with extremist politicians in Northern Ireland , it was Rees-Mogg who led the governors ' demand that the management acquiesce . |
| 12 | That first row , when we got the committee up to face him , that frightened him , and then it was made quite plain that Therese was here to stay . |
| 13 | ‘ Just recently I got the gown out to lend to a neighbour , ’ Jean says . |
| 14 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 15 | But Lili said there were few enough times when she got the chance really to dress up and she was going to now . |
| 16 | This defeatism , unwarranted either by the fragility of Reagan 's mandate or by the public opinion polls , led the Speaker meekly to surrender his control over the legislative schedule by agreeing to an accelerated timetable allowing for final votes on the president 's programme by mid-summer . |
| 17 | But for the majority it was purity which provided the language both to challenge men 's immorality and to stake out their own claim to speak about sex . |
| 18 | In 1787 the prince promised the king not to exceed his income and , trusting this promise , Parliament agreed to pay £190,000 of debt . |
| 19 | Flavia entered the conversation sufficiently to say , ‘ Heard ; not read . |
| 20 | On the final end he moved the jack again to add another and finish 20–17 ahead . |
| 21 | As soon as she had given the injection she massaged the area briskly to help the dispersal of the drug . |
| 22 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 23 | She had recently found that she was waking with the dawn — or even slightly earlier — and she used the opportunity either to keep up with her journal or to rough out a column for J. D. O'Connor who grew increasingly pleased with her work . |
| 24 | In the last recession some companies — now very well known — used the slump either to start on the acquisition trail , like Williams Holdings and Hillsdown Holdings , or to grow from big to huge , like Hanson and BTR . |
| 25 | However , she also found wide variation in the extent to which different social workers used the referral either to assess for a specific resource or to undertake a more general assessment of need and circumstances . |
| 26 | Robyn found the discussion hard to follow . |
| 27 | Michael Shersby , the MP who represents the police federation 's interests in the Commons , told our reporter Simon Mares that he found the sentence hard to understand . |
| 28 | Then midfielder Gavin Johnson went close with a header before veteran striker Paul Goddard found the net only to see his spectacular volley disallowed for a foul on Ray Houghton . |
| 29 | ‘ I found the pressure hard to handle because everyone expects something special from you every single week . |
| 30 | Others who visited the line subsequently to share the experience were not favoured to witness the sound of the ghostly train . |