Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante . |
| 2 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 3 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 4 | In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig . |
| 5 | She did n't need Maggie to remind her of the odds against a baby 's survival in the alleys , and she loved this one enough to make the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 6 | She did not need Jarvis to tell her of the phenomenon of the shivering platform at West Hampstead as a train approaches , that and the singing of the rails , because she was accustomed to the point of no longer noticing it . |
| 7 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 8 | He did n't need Fraser to tell him about the brother and sister . |
| 9 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 10 | Her friend Angela , who worked for Tiller every year in pantomime , asked Jane to accompany her to the stage door of the Hippodrome Theatre , Manchester , to pick up a contract . |
| 11 | Alexander was too far gone in his cups to detect the sarcasm but he looked at Corbett , licked his lips greedily and , snatching up a brimming cup , lurched to his feet and gestured Corbett to follow him to the far end of the room . |
| 12 | At the end of the visit Archipenko told Modigliani to help himself to the fruit and vegetables in their garden which he took back to Jeanne and her mother as a peace offering . |
| 13 | She detailed Amy to take them into the interview room and give them tea and stay with them , and she and Ben went alongside the trolley into Resus . |
| 14 | In 1928 screen goddess Gloria Swanson hired Stroheim to direct her in the lavish Queen Kelly , but after he had wasted $600,000 on meaningless footage , Swanson fired him . |
| 15 | Her father , a greengrocer , had stabled the pony behind the shop in the middle of town , fed it on sprouts and boiled potatoes and encouraged Nutty to turn it into a show-jumper . |
| 16 | He allowed Jane to sit him by the table and then damp down his hair with water — ice cold and brackish ! — from the ewer . |
| 17 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 18 | He pushed open the door and allowed Catherine to precede him into the studio . |
| 19 | She orders Victor to accompany her to the head teacher 's office . |
| 20 | ‘ I have told Lucia to show you to the Teresa de Vertù suite . ’ |
| 21 | Athelstan rubbed his chin with the palm of his hand and remembered he 'd promised Benedicta to meet her at the Fleet prison where Simon the carpenter would spend his last evening on earth . |
| 22 | It was a family house after all , no doubt Hilbert had intended Adam to share it with the rest of the family . |
| 23 | Wednesday were shattered at giving up a three-goal lead at home but their plan to expose right-back Paul Parker 's size by getting Hirst to attack him in the air paid off with two goals — plus one for the striker himself . |
| 24 | In four days time , Karen King was due to go to her Aunt Jane 's on the Isle of Man , still hoping to persuade Jessica to join her on the boat . |
| 25 | Annabel tried to persuade Stephen to join her on a bright-blue canvas swing seat with Charlie . |
| 26 | Feeling a little dizzy at being caught in the whirlwind of Faye 's enthusiasm , and wondering if she was just imagining a slightly brittle , overwrought quality to it this morning , Belinda listened to several more of Faye 's ideas for ‘ Getting Tom to notice you as a woman ’ . |
| 27 | Next time , get Vic to take you to the King 's Head Carvery . |
| 28 | To some extent it is still a feature in the landscape , for Deronda takes Gwendolen to admire it from a special window , round which ‘ a sort of bower had been made … turning it into a recess ’ . |
| 29 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 30 | St Augustine similarly asked God to keep him in a " chaste desire " during sleep , and protect him from dreams which , " owing to animal images " , might lead him " to pollution " . |