Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 2 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 3 | Marjorie steeled herself , asked to see the vet again , and said she would stay while Lizzie was put to sleep . |
| 4 | She asked to see the daughter of the house . |
| 5 | The more the searcher asked to see the daughter , the more the daughter was hidden until that planned moment of ‘ chance ’ arrived when all was revealed , and all was , as my young Sheikh would have said , ‘ perfectly well ’ . |
| 6 | He asked to see the officer involved in the investigation of the earlier charge . |
| 7 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 8 | Standing waiting in the yard , while another pony was being saddled , Gabriel asked to see the monastery chapel . |
| 9 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I was n't going to tell you this , but I went to the bank and asked to see the Manager . |
| 11 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 12 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 13 | I was told I was getting a direct order , but I refused to pack and asked to see the governor . |
| 14 | The contributors , Roman Catholic priests and TM teachers among them , sought to harmonise the teaching of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with their own views of Christianity . |
| 15 | John McCarthy asked to attend the service . |
| 16 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
| 17 | He again failed to acknowledge the part that he could play in reducing the odds which are stacked against women and shackle them in the way that he described . |
| 18 | For a time the company failed to acknowledge the problem until the numbers began to be serious , at which time the management decided to ‘ regroup , become leaner , and work differently . ’ |
| 19 | Berri and Jumblatt agreed to attend the meeting after talking with visiting Syrian Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam in early January . |
| 20 | He failed to realize the difference and his blank expression made her smile . |
| 21 | What interests her , apparently , is not the remark itself , but ‘ the degree to which the piece of recall ’ — her piece of recall , presumably — ‘ failed to affect the novel in any way ’ . |
| 22 | Application of human recombinant bFGF ( 1–100 µg/kg/hour subcutaneously ) failed to affect the formation of acute gastric lesions induced by 100% ethanol and acidified aspirin but reduced the stress induced by gastric lesions . |
| 23 | Working in conjunction with the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) , the ANC planned to conduct the campaign by means of house-to-house visits , completing it on June 16 , a senior ANC official , Mzwai Piliso , told a news conference . |
| 24 | The Companies Act ( CA ) 1985 , s151 will prevent the purchaser from using the assets of the company or a subsidiary as security for a loan made to enable the purchaser to buy the shares in that company . |
| 25 | If anyone failed to attend the muster , heavy fines and punishments could be imposed . |
| 26 | Over half of the 45 heads of state or government , including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt , failed to attend the gathering and were represented instead by deputies . |
| 27 | She also sought to compare the impact of wife rape with the impact of rape by strangers and others , and found that 65 per cent . |
| 28 | In his early months he sought to stimulate the interest of the Cambridge Board in the appointment of resident tutors to pioneer development in the eastern counties of the District . |
| 29 | Despite gaining a second corner during the half , Milton failed to penetrate the home defence and at half time neither side had scored . |
| 30 | Of course they were and they failed , and they failed to penetrate the defence |