Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie steeled herself , asked to see the vet again , and said she would stay while Lizzie was put to sleep . |
| 2 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 3 | She asked to see the daughter of the house . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He asked to see the images in the church , of which there was so much talk . |
| 6 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 7 | He asked to see the officer involved in the investigation of the earlier charge . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I was n't going to tell you this , but I went to the bank and asked to see the Manager . |
| 9 | I was told I was getting a direct order , but I refused to pack and asked to see the governor . |
| 10 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Standing waiting in the yard , while another pony was being saddled , Gabriel asked to see the monastery chapel . |
| 13 | The doctor asked to see the fallen member . |
| 14 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 15 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | The intention was always to develop the College as a learning community , which deliberately sought to emphasise the common experiences of working-class people through the full use of the residential setting by |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At the Second Congress of the RSDWP those who opposed Lenin — the Mensheviks — sought to dilute the revolutionary purity of the party and weaken its discipline . |
| 20 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
| 21 | John McCarthy asked to attend the service . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The feast committee agreed to attend the fair during this time . |
| 26 | In view of the commitment expressed by the US President , George Bush , to withdraw all US invasion forces from Panama by the end of February 1990 [ see p. 37177 ] , García agreed to attend the international drugs summit in Cartagena ( Colombia ) on Feb. 15 [ for which see pp. 37243-44 ] . |
| 27 | Berri and Jumblatt agreed to attend the meeting after talking with visiting Syrian Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam in early January . |
| 28 | He failed to realize the difference and his blank expression made her smile . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |