Sentence examples for caused bill from inspiring English sources

He wrote: "My only regret was that I had caused Bill to risk his neck as well".

This caused Bill, who adored his stepfather, to change his name by deed poll to Cleworth-Piddington in 1992.

One might say, for example, that fear of the tiger caused Bill to choose to run away from it, and, in one sense, that Bill's volition to run away from the tiger was determined by his fear of it.

The R notation relates to the fact that particular verbs may express either an instance of causing someone to receive something, as with hand, or a means of causing someone to receive something, as with kick: what Joe kicked Bill the ball means is that Joe caused Bill to receive the ball by means of a kicking action.

The work by the RAE experts adds to criticism that Conservative decisions on energy are actually causing bills to rise.

Downing Street dismissed the commission's warning and denied claims that scrapping subsidies could cause bills to rise.

Although better energy efficiency doesn't always mean lower fuel bills, as other factors, such as changes in the unit cost of fuel, can cause bills to creep up even if fuel use is reduced.

John Kemp, Reuters' commodities and energy columnist, says: Differences between Decc and npower about what is causing bills to rise, and the impact of policy measures, stem from differing assumptions about fossil fuel prices.

Mobile phone users have been warned to watch out for malicious apps that cause bills of hundreds of pounds to be racked up without people's knowledge, after three UK companies were fined by a telecoms watchdog.

That is a large part of the reason I'm so smitten with it: that same obsession that caused Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start Microsoft, that drove Steve Jobs to build the first home computer in a garage, that motivated Marc Andreessen to create the first commercial browser while still in school — that's the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook too, at least in Mr. Sorkin's telling.

The U.S. Senate failed to pass the final bill, which caused the bill to die in the closing days of the lame duck legislative session.