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 | She had a long face and such a naked forehead , Daisy found herself turning her into a polo pony . |
| 9 | But it jogged a memory somewhere , and she found herself examining it with a growing sense of unease . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But she let him help her into a chair . |
| 14 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 15 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind . |
| 18 | ‘ Mother , I asked you to take him to a cricket match , not to start hacking the poor chap 's rosebushes to pieces . ’ |
| 19 | Once the fry hatched I moved them into a tank of their own . |
| 20 | When the BUF developed it created something of a stir as the various political parties adjusted to its presence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He watched her pour it with a steady hand . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Hugo Brassard 's asked her to join him in a new agency . |
| 25 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 26 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 27 | He also gave Minton a copy of Pinet 's 1733 edition of Horace , with its engraved decorations , and asked him to use it as a starting point . |
| 28 | The men motioned me to go away , and after they had looked at Jordi 's papers I saw them escort him to a car . |
| 29 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 30 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |