Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 2 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
| 3 | Now I want you to tell me the important part — why the hell are you so desperate that you 'll go to this extent in order to get your hands on the bequest ? |
| 4 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 5 | They believed in the myth and Diana could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth . |
| 6 | ‘ If you would like me to forgive you the other half of your great debt , then fire the kiln tomorrow morning , well before dawn . |
| 7 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 8 | I 'll go through it again once we 've seen the film , and ask you to give me the main points that came out of the film . |
| 9 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 10 | He took out two large plastic orange cones — the sort you get on motorway hold-ups — and gave them to me , telling me to put them the other side of the bend to slow the traffic coming down . |
| 11 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 12 | When dinner was over he liked Diana enough to ask her to show him the 115-foot-long picture gallery which then housed one of the finest private collections of art in Europe . |