Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit .
2 ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’
3 I 'll leave you to talk to him a minute .
4 Before your children come to Heriot 's we would like you to discuss with them the aims of this School and the values on which we lay emphasis .
5 Look , I 've arranged for you to stay with us a while longer .
6 There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour .
7 Insecurity must have something to do with it an insecurity about the musical self-sufficiency of absolute melody , so foreign to our modern western way of musical thinking , compounded by the performer 's fear of standing before an audience with no instrument and no accompaniment to hide behind or use as a prop …
8 As they approach the valley overlooked by the Mountain of God , he asks her to accept from him the gift of a necklace .
9 A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life .
10 I know members will be sorry to hear that Mr Robert and Mr Ken are both unwell and will wish me to convey to them the council 's best wishes for a speedy recovery .
11 He is indeed given us to actualise in us the character of Christ : but that process will not be complete until we see him as he is , either at death or the Parousia .
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