Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me to compile a list of suspects , however improbable . |
| 2 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 3 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 4 | That made me feel a bit of an outsider . |
| 5 | This no doubt explains one of Hudson 's tests on the schoolboys , which asked them to write a description of a scientist 's wife , and a novelist 's wife , not a novelist 's husband . |
| 6 | She asked them to donate a collection of drawings , watercolours and sketches as well as etchings , lino prints and engravings on metal . |
| 7 | In 1950 Mother Theresa F.C.J. , invited me to become a member of the Guild . |
| 8 | Peter Shore soon invited me to become a member of the Docklands Committee which was responsible for planning the redevelopment of the Wapping area . |
| 9 | He let me take a box of groceries ( Sainsbury 's of course ) while he unloaded a couple of suitcases from the boot . |
| 10 | She helped them to organise a process of gathering information by drawing up a list of possible sources , and setting them writing letters . |
| 11 | As he approached I felt a pang of commiseration . |
| 12 | When I resumed my studies I found I had a lot of catching up to do . ’ |
| 13 | I found I read a lot of books and so on , I rested a lot . |
| 14 | He looked down at it and found himself reading an account of Mary Connon 's death . |
| 15 | He therefore found himself shooting a lot of film at sites of travel . |
| 16 | He therefore found himself shooting a lot of film at sites of travel . |
| 17 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 18 | And when he tried transparent tricks to pull up vital business buried at the end of the list , he found himself making a number of enemies in the group . |
| 19 | One of his two ploughmen had left the district and Seb found himself performing a lot of the work himself . |
| 20 | Rupert , left alone with Ianthe and Penelope , found himself heaving a sigh of relief , flopping down into a chair , and suggesting a cup of tea . |
| 21 | they bought it for Marg when she was ill and Phil taped you know a lot of his records and some of Marg he 'd got and that was it I suppose that 's what sort Bill plays now . |
| 22 | Kathleen found herself heaving a sigh of relief . |
| 23 | There entered her mind a memory of the feast day of the Madonna della Bruna ; it fell in July in the time of the fierce lion sun , as they called it in the hills , and yet the shrine attracted crowds from all Ninfania and all around . |
| 24 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 25 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 26 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 27 | In summer he let her cut a bunch of flowers at the end of the morning , to take home for the table . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 29 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 30 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |