Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way to change the situation is by harnessing staff expertise and encouraging them to become part of the process of customer service . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Much to my surprise and delight , sure enough in ‘ 84 he contacted me and asked me to take part in the Mozart ‘ Coronation ’ Mass to be performed in front of the Pope the following year . |
| 3 | At last he reached me and asked me to demonstrate el thwing . |
| 4 | The man beckoned to me as I stood around vaguely , and asked me to fetch cognac for him , vodka with ice for his wife and … what for Nell ? |
| 5 | On the sixth day of rehearsal , Burge decided that Dustin would never ‘ find ’ the role , and asked him to make way for another actor . |
| 6 | Towards noon on 5th October , Howard 's treaty Nez Perce scouts Captain John and Old George carried a white flag to the fugitives ' lines and asked them to make peace . |
| 7 | Typically a dybbuk was not satisfied with life beyond the grave and would return to take possession of another person , changing their character and using them to wreak havoc . |
| 8 | Other ideas include mixing straw with sewage to make compost , which is being tried out at sewage works near Oxford and using it to make paper , which it was widely used for until the 40s . |
| 9 | Fold the sides into the pleats and bring them to lay side by side along the top edge of the swag , pinning and handstitching them securely in position , as previously planned . |
| 10 | The main effect of the 1992 programme may well turn out to be psychological , that is to turn the attention of producers from the EC , and other developed economies , towards the European market and to encourage them to gather information on the markets of Europe . |
| 11 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |
| 12 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 13 | ‘ First thing : you ca n't just haul off and smack a dog in the snout and expect him to turn tail and run away . ’ |
| 14 | One of the lessons we learned early on from QES was that it 's not enough to appoint a number of specialist trainers , brilliant though they may be , and expect them to lead change . |
| 15 | But here they just give you a few examples and expect you to do example sheets , it really is so difficult . |
| 16 | ‘ His family are also desperate to hear from him again and urge him to make contact with them . ’ |
| 17 | Eventually , a church member who was a nurse tabulated all the medical information , and helped me to write begging letters to pharmaceutical firms . |
| 18 | The idea is that the mind , stimulated by key words or phrases in the text , or by the context , activates a knowledge schema , and uses it to make sense of the discourse . |
| 19 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 20 | Monitors now tend to be more expensive and restrict you to video playback only . |
| 21 | The NeXT Computer company , headed by Steve Jobs ( co-designer of the Apple Macintosh ) , are releasing NeXTSTEP 486 , an object-oriented system that gives complete software data compatibility , unlimited multitasking both locally and across a network , and allows you to create custom applications on your desktop . |
| 22 | The new CompuAdd 320sc combines high performance with a low-profile system unit , and allows you to run 32-bit applications at the fastest SX speed — 20 MHz . |
| 23 | He rose to go and told me to take care . |
| 24 | We sat and drank our tea in silence then Dad stood up and told me to tell Mum , when she returned , that he 'd gone to have one last talk to the relief officer . |
| 25 | Disgusted by the latest battle between the quarrelsome politicians , he met the prime minister , Nawaz Sharif , and the president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , separately on May 31st and told them to make peace or else . |
| 26 | I just gave him a piece of fruit , Oscar said , and told him to learn French . |
| 27 | However , it could also apply to parents in the ‘ leafy suburbs ’ , particularly in June , when older pupils could convince their parents that ‘ nothing much was happening ’ at school and persuade them to condone non-attendance . |
| 28 | He took her outstretched hand — very soft , very feminine — and allowed her to lead Rim away . |
| 29 | Every evening since Boxing Night she had come to his basement-room and allowed him to make love to her . |
| 30 | They gave them much latitude in day-to-day operations and allowed them to mould law and order policies according to counter-insurgency theories . |