Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Branagh hired him to direct his Coriolanus at Chichester this summer after seeing his Billy Budd in Sheffield . |
| 2 | Sarah complained that she was ‘ bored ’ and so Miss Rudge told her to pack her bags and leave for a term . |
| 3 | Miss Lambe helped him to unpack his books , holding each one with as much reverence as if it had been the Sacrament . |
| 4 | Numbly Rory allowed him to lead her to the dance floor , moving automatically into his arms as though she 'd always belonged there . |
| 5 | It 's an embarrassing thing for a fault-tolerant vendor to have to say , but a bug in Guardian for the Tandem Computers Inc NonStop CLX machines caused them to reset their clocks to December 1 , 1983 on November 1 , causing systems with time-dependent programs to go haywire . |
| 6 | At first Miss Outram told them to ask their mothers , but feeling she might lose the girls ' confidence if she blocked their curiosity she took a more direct approach . |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Anna told me to ask you to go straight in . ’ |
| 8 | His inability to make the weight limit forced him to relinquish his title , but two years later , at the age of 22 , he moved back to the USA and won the featherweight crown ( subsequently losing it , regaining it , losing it again and winning it back finally in 1898 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Signor Diomede ordered me to bring it up , Signorina . ’ |
| 10 | The next morning , we found another blown exhaust gasket , but Thai Air Force mechanics helped us to fix it , with no charge . |
| 11 | Mother Bombie motioned him to keep his voice down but he ignored her . |
| 12 | At the beginning of Lent , Miss White approached me to see what she should do about the appeal |
| 13 | I know Frank Foley wished you to help us extend our network here , but this is a task I think potentially more important . |
| 14 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 15 | In March , her friend Mary-Ann Stewart-Richardson invited her to join her family on their skiing holiday in the French Alps . |
| 16 | In 1979 , singer Nancy Wilson hired him to open her nightclub act . |
| 17 | The man from Servette Geneva saw nothing to worry him from his UEFA Cup opponents . |
| 18 | It was a painful process , but Angela 's experience as an antique dealer specialising in country furniture and folk art helped her to accept it philosophically . |
| 19 | Mr Keen saw John Neal , Willie Maddren , Bobbie Murdoch and Malcolm Allison come and go before work pressures forced him to leave his scouting post in the early days of Bruce Rioch . |
| 20 | But Mike Burton is also the best in the business of sports hospitality and that 's why the Welsh Rugby Union appointed him to run their corporate hospitality . |
| 21 | ‘ Dr Jones asked me to tell you he was off to tea . |
| 22 | Aunt Margaret told her to dress herself in her nicest dress and Melanie put on a dress she had never worn in her uncle 's house , a best dress from the old days , dark green corduroy with lace at the neck . |
| 23 | Guy topped Mortimer 's height by at least six inches , and the civilising garb of Savile Row suit and Jermyn Street silk shirt did nothing to hide his athletic physique . |
| 24 | Mr Dawlish told me to give you a summary of the virus . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr Benedict asked me to give you this , miss , quiet like . ’ |
| 26 | Sister Oliver pressed her to grasp her chance and go to university . |
| 27 | Mr Hellyer asked me to hide it for him . |
| 28 | Their fascination for twisted pop classics led them to barter their worldly goods for two acoustic guitars and into The Impossibles . |
| 29 | ‘ I loved the song , and I think it should have been a hit , but there again the record company did nothing to promote it . |
| 30 | " Mr. Preston wanted me to ask you if it would be convenient to move the bureau into your part of the house this afternoon , " Mrs. Mott began . |