Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first morning we met you asked me to show you the way to the matriculation class , putting a very strong stress on the first syllable . |
| 2 | Their triple-engined ski boat had blocked the exit to the road and when people asked them to move it the BMW people started arguing . |
| 3 | I got them to give me the number for the cleaners ' mess-room and asked there . |
| 4 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 5 | I want you to show her the ropes . |
| 6 | ‘ We now want him to give us the name of his accomplice . ’ |
| 7 | I want her to give you the name of the man responsible . ’ |
| 8 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 9 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 10 | He 's instructed me to give you the ride on Shine On at York next week . |
| 11 | I pointed out that his voice had certainly ceased to be soprano , but he pestered me to teach him the solo for the next eisteddfod . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 've no intention of allowing you to give me the slip tonight . |
| 13 | Kaitlin has run a lot of times over the course and the fact that the Michael Grassick stable is in form leads me to make him the choice in the Newcastle Maiden Hurdle . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I 'd like you to give me the answer to a question . ’ |
| 15 | " I 'd like you to give me the wedding-dress you got from the children . " |
| 16 | Oh I like if I 'd have known you were going I 'd have got you to get me the nut ones . |
| 17 | I read it in one twenty-minute sitting , howled like a baby for ten more minutes , then phoned the producer and practically begged her to give me the job . |
| 18 | Get someone to read it to you once only , then get them to ask you the questions which follow . |
| 19 | I 'll have to er give her a ring to and tell them to send me the advert . |
| 20 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 21 | We 've only got two now , but they like us to tell them the details of the day . ’ |
| 22 | While we can not provide the details you might want at this time , I 'd encourage you to give us the benefit of the doubt . |
| 23 | If you refuse to co-operate I can force you to pay me the money you owe me . |
| 24 | ‘ Dr Greene has deputised you to show me the sonogram pictures and explain them , I hope . ’ |
| 25 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 26 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 27 | I mean , I expect she knew how you felt about the only things worth having being the things you 'd worked hard for and earned for yourself , so you would n't want her to leave you the house ] But she did n't want you to think she 'd forgotten you , or that she was just being spiteful , or something … ’ |
| 28 | Juliet was remembering Celia 's frightened voice as she asked her to tell her the blood results before anyone else . |
| 29 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 30 | She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet . |