Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 2 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 3 | I suppose I 'd best ring Scottie and see if he wants me to process something about a picture then ? |
| 4 | There 'll be someone to see you in a minute . ’ |
| 5 | He presented himself as organizer of reciprocities ( ‘ Am I to ask them for a dinar when you are sick ? ’ ) rather than as lineage banker : he noticeably did not raise issues of authority . |
| 6 | She was determined to allow nobody to treat her as a child in future — not Sam , not Adam , not Elinor , not Buzz , and certainly not Miranda . |
| 7 | I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure . |
| 8 | I would like you to wear it for a while . ’ |
| 9 | I need you to cover me fer a couple of hours at th'most . |
| 10 | I want to make the volume of the space tangible , so that it is understood immediately , physically , by your body ; not that the sculpture is a body in relation to your body , but that the volume , through the placement of the two sculptural elements , becomes manifest in a way that allows you to experience it as a whole . |
| 11 | The so the equations they give you your ability to handle equations means really it would be easier for you to do it without a graph , half the time . |
| 12 | ‘ Obviously we have to move fast , so I want you to accompany me to a dinner that the developers are giving tonight . |
| 13 | I advise you to keep him at a distance until you are married . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’ |
| 15 | And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen forever . ’ |
| 16 | Pry now asks you to advise him about a house he wants to buy . |
| 17 | This circumstance encourages me to hope that you may , if you have any opening for such a youth , be willing to take George , who is exceedingly desirous of obtaining the situation — or indeed any situation which through industry and a desire of improvement may hereafter insure a creditable independence ; but , above all things he seems to wish that it may be possible for you to take him into a situation similar to that which was offered to his Brother . |
| 18 | ‘ Mother , I asked you to take him to a cricket match , not to start hacking the poor chap 's rosebushes to pieces . ’ |
| 19 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They play three at the back , but the ability of players like Awford enables them to use it as a springboard for attack as well as a defensive system . |
| 21 | ‘ Would you like me to leave you for a while ? ’ |
| 22 | I 've done nothing to put myself in a position where I have … hit men coming after me ! ’ |
| 23 | The Divisional objectives are twofold , one to establish ourselves in a market that only two years ago was completely new to Rentokil , and the other to help our customers and prospects through the current minefield of legislation related to water and air systems . |
| 24 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 25 | There was nothing to protect it save a company of disreputable rabble and a small strange looking nine-barrelled cannon . |
| 26 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 27 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 28 | So Alfred had laced his own brandy and taken it to the little hut which had youthful associations , there to kill himself in a manner that was almost ceremonial . |
| 29 | Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people . |
| 30 | The gunman forced him to drive him to a stretch of the A61 near Thirsk , North Yorkshire . |