Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have taught me to read the fires of meaning but I am inadequate . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It has stirred us to see the Africans raise their own fares , communally and by hard work . |
| 5 | I 've learnt so much from other families in the same situation and it 's helped me to accept the realities . |
| 6 | While she spoke , she remembered Maxie 's grumble from behind his newspaper , the last time he had been home , when she had told him to do the leaves . |
| 7 | Do the students feel the teacher has enabled them to achieve the objectives ? |
| 8 | Author Mik Chinery runs a powerboat school and has been involved in the incorporation of electronic navigation in RYA courses , a background which has enabled him to explain the principles and application of this still relatively new field . |
| 9 | Evans-Pritchard , too , followed this style of research because no other would have enabled him to gain the insights that he wanted . |
| 10 | He had invited her to join the ladies ' sewing circle , and even suggested that she might like to attend the Tuesday evening Bible readings which he ran — he was sure that ‘ dear Miss Mates ’ would release her for the hour and a half the readings usually took . |
| 11 | I will assess this more in the conclusions , by which time the evolving events will have enabled us to understand the pressures on the participants better . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : I 'll tell you how it is : you have taught her to assume the airs of a gentlewoman . |
| 13 | Involuntarily the landlord of the Feathers shivered , peering uncertainly up at this late wayfarer , whose peremptory summons on the front door had recalled him to undo the bolts he had only just shot to . |
| 14 | Seems like only yesterday ( well it was earlier this year ) that Lucie Fjeldstad , 49 , was boasting about the $100m IBM Corp had given her to lay the foundations of a multimedia business : now she is taking the IBM shilling , also known as early retirement incentives , and quitting her post as vice-president and general manager , Multimedia ; she was behind the Blockbuster agreements . |
| 15 | The majority of the Parish Council see no reason for the planning authority to alter their decision and have asked me to re-state the comments made in my letter of 18 November 1991 ( Ref WBCP/22/1811 ) . |
| 16 | Erm he 's in Scotland for about the next month , but I 've asked him to do the recordings in the next week . |
| 17 | Tilson 's family have asked him to contact the police . |
| 18 | Reaction against the weapons of ‘ The Thing ’ — I take that now , in concluding , as typical of some , though not all , of the classifications into which I have exhorted you to divide the breaches of law and order — reaction against its contradictions , its absurdities , its defiance of known , established , healthy reality , can only come from individual persons — and from individual persons who speak . |
| 19 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 20 | This , he felt , would have allowed him to tolerate the disturbances better . |
| 21 | ‘ The job required us to cast the parts to near finished size , precision-machine them and then clear up the waste , ’ said section manager Dr Brian Hudson . |