Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orcadai gestured them to silence and paced the length of the room . |
| 2 | I encouraged them to lead but kept them going towards the sun by suggesting detours round obstructing patches , and I identified the trees for them , trying to make it interesting . |
| 3 | Was it right to present this all at one time to the boards for them to pick and chose , or should practical issues , such as board operations , have been introduced first , before asking them to consider larger educational issues ? |
| 4 | When you stayed away from me , I would try in vain to will you back beside me : then , long after the dinner I waited for you to share but had to eat alone , I would wander out into the stony streets , hoping to bump into you , to glimpse you sitting in a bar or on a park bench : |
| 5 | We just asked them to leave and told them we would explain later . |
| 6 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 7 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 8 | Anita encouraged him to go and decided that while he was away , running a shop would be a less demanding occupation than working all hours in a restaurant . |
| 9 | Could there have been a fight causing him to fall and hit the back of his head on something ? |
| 10 | Fernande Olivier , Picasso 's mistress , described him as stingy , but he was a good friend to Modigliani , encouraged him to paint and lent him colours , brushes and canvas . |
| 11 | They dragged her into bushes , ordered her to strip and took turns to rape her . |
| 12 | He had seen her passionate anger and had wanted to kiss her senseless , had heard her lie to him and had wanted to shake the truth out of her , had almost caused her to swoon and had wanted to hold her close and tell her he would n't allow anything to hurt her again — all in the space of about half a minute . |
| 13 | And she laughed her laugh , that shocking laugh which turned heads and caused her to blush and put a hand over her naked mouth . |
| 14 | When he did , with a flustered Lady Agnes in tow , Corbett abruptly told him to leave and asked Agnes to sit on the crude bench opposite him . |
| 15 | So I told him to leave and took in lodgers to make money . |
| 16 | The lessor is usually further protected by a proviso allowing him to re-enter and put an end to the lease in the event of the tenant 's failure to pay rent or observe the other covenants . |
| 17 | Willoughby de Broke saw something of himself in his grandmother , ‘ a good whip and a good horsewoman ’ , who taught him to ride and launched him on an obsessively pursued career in hunting . |
| 18 | His heat scorched her , and unbearably stretched nerves urged her to turn and put an end to this agony of wanting . |
| 19 | Bruce nodded and gestured at him to withdraw and turned to Corbett . |
| 20 | Fearing a wholesale decimation of its executive ranks , The Journal said , DEC tried to persuade him to stay but failed . |
| 21 | The husband came to England to seek to persuade her to return but did not then succeed . |
| 22 | But what if his parents had forbidden him to pray and read his Bible ? |
| 23 | I called him to stop and said , ‘ I 've got to test your brakes . ’ |
| 24 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 25 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 26 | She said , ‘ You see I was given it to work and read in , not to … entertain . ’ |
| 27 | When he moved into this intriguing 19th-century house , he had a clear idea of how he wanted it to look and decided to design the decor himself . |
| 28 | The laird waited for it to finish and said scornfully , ‘ How can I do that ? |
| 29 | If you had waited for me to return and confronted me with your distress I would have told you . |
| 30 | She asked us to wait and indicated a nest of Bauhaus leather armchairs . |