Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | I knew that she now expected me to live with her for the rest of her days . |
| 3 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 4 | If he expected me to break into tears and confess , then he was a good judge of character , but I had Dod to think about and Dod had a missus and kids and anyway was bigger than me and after all was a pretty good drummer . |
| 5 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 6 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 7 | In these cases , financial security , a reluctance to move to a new employer , and proximity to the statutory pension age , coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working , led them to opt for early retirement . |
| 8 | Over the past ten years local authorities have moved away from the model which led them to act as direct providers of public services . |
| 9 | The whole crew landed safely at Aberdeen at the end of August 1882 , having survived the winter because lack of provisions led them to live on fresh meat , thus avoiding scurvy , and because of Smith 's quiet leadership . |
| 10 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 11 | Their revolutionary strategies and organizations reflected not their leadership of popular protest but a near-total isolation which led them to resort to conspiracy and manipulation . |
| 12 | The anxiety of the Tsar and Tsarina to shield their haemophiliac son led them to withdraw into a narrow family circle , incurring the displeasure of members of high society . |
| 13 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 14 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 15 | This disagreement led to a reconciliation on the tenth morning culminating in a bout of furious unaccustomed holiday sex ( the kind you do n't get anywhere else ) , which in turn led them to wander onto the beach much later in the day , feeling sheepish and rather pleased with themselves . |
| 16 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 17 | Their increasing interest in the New Testament and the Life of Christ led them to concentrate on poverty and preaching — which previous authorities had seen to be dangerous . |
| 18 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |
| 19 | It was the best choice for her , because she could decide which weeks she wanted free — and timed them to coincide with school holidays . |
| 20 | She asked me to apologize to you , should I see you , for not having answered your last letter . |
| 21 | I met Jane Toler at a party , and , homing in on my angularity of form , she asked me to sit for her . |
| 22 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ a friend came round and asked me to go with her … |
| 24 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 25 | So , when the captain of a ship asked me to go with him to Guinea in Africa , I agreed . |
| 26 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 27 | ‘ Excuse me , Hsiao Chi , but my master asked me to see to your every wish . ’ |
| 28 | They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit . |
| 29 | ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’ |
| 30 | Now , the topic that Sheila asked me to talk about was skin care . |