Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 2 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 3 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 4 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 5 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 6 | After a short chat he invited me to join him at a ‘ small Chinese gathering ’ in the hall usually used for Tong meetings on River Street West . |
| 7 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 8 | When Richard Denyer first began knocking on doors in the book publishing world , with the synopsis of a photographic essay on the Norfolk Broads in his hand , he found himself facing something of an image problem . |
| 9 | She had a long face and such a naked forehead , Daisy found herself turning her into a polo pony . |
| 10 | But it jogged a memory somewhere , and she found herself examining it with a growing sense of unease . |
| 11 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 12 | On the evening before his body was found she had organised a baby-sitter to look after their two children and invited him to accompany her to a function at Dowman 's British Steel Club , but he had refused to go and instead went out alone . |
| 13 | During the summer of 1977 she watched him play polo at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor and when , in February 1978 , he invited her to join him on a skiing party in Klosters , Switzerland there was much speculation that she might be the future queen of England . |
| 14 | But she let him help her into a chair . |
| 15 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 16 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 17 | I told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house . |
| 18 | Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq . |
| 19 | Bessie knew nothing about football , and her constant harping on one subject caused her to become somewhat of an object of ridicule . |
| 20 | The two newspapers reporting this case both focused on his claim that sex taunts from his 56-year-old wife over his impotency provoked him to strangle her with a flex . |
| 21 | Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind . |
| 22 | ‘ Mother , I asked you to take him to a cricket match , not to start hacking the poor chap 's rosebushes to pieces . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ My brother paid me to help him in an unofficial capacity . ’ |
| 24 | He claimed he associated himself with an abnormality that characterised the outstanding personalities of history , such as Confucius , Jesus Christ , Julius Caesar and Hitler . |
| 25 | Once the fry hatched I moved them into a tank of their own . |
| 26 | When the BUF developed it created something of a stir as the various political parties adjusted to its presence . |
| 27 | Some have expected to sleep with anyone they fancied who treated them to a night out — or , in the case of a man , expected bed for the night in return for dinner . |
| 28 | He watched her pour it with a steady hand . |
| 29 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 30 | ‘ Hugo Brassard 's asked her to join him in a new agency . |