Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have taught me to read the fires of meaning but I am inadequate . |
| 2 | ( Bitter experience has taught me to remove the gaffer at the end of the event only by holding the wire down on the floor as you pull the tape up . |
| 3 | ‘ You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the Throne . |
| 4 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 5 | ‘ As the club have never expected me to have a coaching certificate , I 've never considered it worth the effort just to get a piece of paper . |
| 6 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 7 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 8 | It was n't as though she 'd expected him to wear a City suit . |
| 9 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 10 | She had expected him to get a water-taxi , but he turned right and walked along the fondamenta , matching his stride to her slower pace . |
| 11 | ‘ You would n't have expected him to become a writer ? ’ |
| 12 | The Colonel had trusted him to rid the Chairman of the darts of the writer with the poisoned pen . |
| 13 | Or why did Stef kidnap well I , you know I ca n't understand this girl , because she 's been in er , I mean she must of seen him when , when he 's approached her to buy the house |
| 14 | However , the constable learned from a woman in the street that just after the explosion Sutherland had approached her to get an ambulance for his friend who was still in the house . |
| 15 | For once we were carrying neither wine nor spirits on Wavebreaker , for Jackson Chatterton 's drug clinic had utterly forbidden us to offer the twins any alcohol , saying that any mood-altering drug could hamper the success of a detoxification programme . |
| 16 | But the committee have approved the idea in principle and have instructed me to investigate the matter further . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The coroner 's court has instructed me to obtain a photograph of a young girl … who will never wake up again . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What on earth can have possessed me to take a job like this ? |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it was his high principles that had obliged him to reject the daughter he loved ; a sad deed that had left its mark on him . |
| 20 | The power that had selected him to fulfil the prophecy . |
| 21 | The disconcerting truth was that , unless it was a brain scan to determine what in the world had possessed her to behave the way she had just now , she had no idea at all what she needed … |
| 22 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 23 | But the people had done it to teach the man a lesson . ’ |
| 24 | The book 's title comes from Psalm 60 : ‘ Thou has shewd thy people hard things : thou has made us to drink the wine of astonishment ’ . |
| 25 | It has stirred us to see the Africans raise their own fares , communally and by hard work . |
| 26 | Analysis of silver ingots from Troy II has shown them to equal the standard of purity of Roman refined silver . |
| 27 | Nothing would ever have induced them to chase a ball , but Buster did it again and again as though he would never tire of it . |
| 28 | He put me on the committee and now they 've persuaded me to open the thing . ’ |
| 29 | The four soldiers , who are now all stationed in Germany but were then in Bordon , each said in evidence that it was this incident which had persuaded them to leave the pub . |
| 30 | However he revealed that although stores were not acting improperly , police have now persuaded them to keep a register of the names and addresses of people purchasing a scanner . |