Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 3 | This disagreement led to a reconciliation on the tenth morning culminating in a bout of furious unaccustomed holiday sex ( the kind you do n't get anywhere else ) , which in turn led them to wander onto the beach much later in the day , feeling sheepish and rather pleased with themselves . |
| 4 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 5 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 6 | He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She asked me to inquire about the case . |
| 8 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 10 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
| 11 | She asked me to stand by the gate while she spoke to him . " |
| 12 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 13 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 14 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 15 | He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation … |
| 16 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 17 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 18 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 19 | But I must say how said it made me to hear of the death of Walter the Gardener . |
| 20 | As a result Mrs Pankhurst asked them to withdraw from the WSPU , and the militant suffragette movement split off into the ‘ Peths ’ and the ‘ Panks ’ , with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence helping to found the non-violent Votes for Women Fellowship and the Women 's Freedom League . |
| 21 | On the Sunday following the manor fire , as Tom , Seb , Dolly and Carrie left Swinbrook chapel after the morning service , Christian asked them to come to the farmhouse . |
| 22 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 23 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 24 | She found nothing to say about the yearlings and shrank quite sensibly from their forward advances , staying silent and watchful while Nicandra talked and lifted solemn grey eyes to Andrew 's , sure of his entire attention . |
| 25 | To back-benchers who expressed alarm at VAT on domestic fuel , Mr Lamont and Mr Major simply invited them to step into the real world . |
| 26 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 27 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 28 | The Working Party helped me to express my lesbianism in a positive way in that I could come out , and it helped me to deal with the suspicion and fears of colleagues Black and white , gay or straight , male or female . |
| 29 | And flipping , twenty five pounds it cost them to get into the . |
| 30 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |