Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [noun prp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to Bristol from Shurton , he and Southey stopped again at Mrs Southey 's house in Westgate Buildings , Bath , and as before found Sarah Fricker there to greet them . |
| 2 | Separately , the company moved Richard Poulsen over to become president of Digital Europe , a post that has been vacant since Pier Carlo Falotti quit in June to join Ask Computer Systems Inc . |
| 3 | You promised Uncle Albert not to get too close , ’ Dick reminded her . |
| 4 | Even his own kind in the Scottish health service found Don Cruickshank hard to handle . |
| 5 | ‘ I told Mrs. Bonnard not to try and cope with it on her own , ’ Richie said . |
| 6 | Macmillan eventually realised that only Australia and New Zealand would resist the pressure and advised South Africa not to press for readmission as a republic . |
| 7 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 8 | Was it consciousness of this that got Mr Milosevic belatedly to urge the Bosnian Serbs to sign the Vance-Owen plan ? |
| 9 | The facts are that I asked Warren Beatty not to cast Sean Young in the role for Dick Tracy . ’ |
| 10 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 11 | She said that she begged Mr Pollard not to drive , he pushed her and told her to get lost . |
| 12 | He talked about being scared , started shaking and then begged Mr Davies not to leave him . |
| 13 | This allowed Philip Neill through to win from Stephen McCreery and Jess . |
| 14 | Leading from a Neil Vasey goal at the break , Aycliffe found Usworth always dangerous until in a five-minute spell midway through the second period a mix-up in the home defence allowed Stuart Howson in to score with Kevin Dinning notching their third shortly afterwards . |
| 15 | A bit of discreet negotiating sorted it out and the area chairman led Mrs Thatcher over to have a word with the local press on her way to the Battlebus , as we called the campaign coach . |
| 16 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 17 | He pressed Harold Macmillan not to recommend to the Queen that the choice should fall upon Ramsey . |
| 18 | Chancellor Kohl again urged East Berlin not to isolate itself and to open the way for change . |
| 19 | French authorities first asked Jacques Walter not to remove ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ from France in 1977 . |
| 20 | When we 'd hung up , I sent Miss Hinkle out to do a little marketing . |
| 21 | When this meeting broke up at about 8.15 I took Mr Murray aside to remind him that he was scheduled to broadcast from our CHAB studio on the top floor in 15 minutes . |
| 22 | ‘ I took Jimi Hendrix down to meet The Cream and as soon as Jimi started playing , Eric Clapton 's hands fell off his guitar and I saw him kinda reel and leave the stage . |
| 23 | I was duly astonished when Harley asked for his putter and sent Derek Jefferson ahead to hold the flag . |
| 24 | Michael Whitaker brought Henderson Curtis here to test his potential for the World Cup final on April 15–19 and after the grey had four fences down , decided against going . |
| 25 | After considerable pleas in writing and phone calls , I brought Fraser Barron back to command No 7 Squadron ; during the interdiction period prior to the Invasion he was outstanding not only as a squadron commander , hut also as an inspiration to all . |
| 26 | Tarry 's first mount , Bright as a Button , was out-galloped in the Restricted by John Sharp on five-year-old Aldington Baron , but the riders ' roles were reversed in the Maiden ( Div 2 ) when Tarry forced St Laycar up to beat Sharp on River Spirit . |