Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [pron] 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 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | What , at least it will enable you to know what the tropical species are because some of them have got quite weird and wonderful names and most people do n't know what some of them are . |
| 9 | Telephone the AA and ask them to tell you the best route . |
| 10 | Erm it would be extremely difficult t for them not to occupy our thoughts , I 'm not sure whether your question is is inviting me to consider what the European Community should be doing in the context of Bosnia . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 13 | My goal in this paper is to examine this literature critically , and then use it to ascertain what the appropriate antitrust treatment of research joint ventures should be . |
| 14 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | do you , do , do you have a gun ? , button one for yes and button two for no well I 'm not going to ask you to identify yourselves the three of you |
| 17 | They have full jurisdiction to say : ‘ We are satisfied that there is a nuisance here , but we are not going to order you to do what the local authority say you are to do because we think it can be done in another and cheaper way or in a more effective way ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |