Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked him to take a fresh look at the situation , because my gut feeling is that the decision that 's been taken is not the right one . ’ |
| 3 | I asked her to take an intermediate photograph . |
| 4 | She had asked if there were anything I wanted from England , and I asked her to bring a large , old-fashioned teddy bear for my small Greek godson , George . |
| 5 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 6 | Okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then I asked you to make a first presentation . |
| 7 | Recently I used it to stick a plastic-coated wire rack to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door while I checked the position of the rack with the door closed . |
| 8 | And I told her to keep the twenty for that stuff in there . |
| 9 | Finally , in growing anger , I told them to perform an unlikely act upon themselves — they stared — and turned away . |
| 10 | I told you to keep the new ones separate . |
| 11 | I urged him to have a few of the young daughters of the gentlefolk before he established the provisional government at the Smolny Institute . |
| 12 | It was n't easy , but I persuaded him to do the right thing . |
| 13 | Our new kitchen is not ultra-modern because I wanted it to have an old look and homely feel . |
| 14 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 15 | I wanted us to spend a few hours together , just talking and relaxing . ’ |
| 16 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 17 | She advised me to ring the free 0800 number in London . |
| 18 | For no earthly reason you caused him to believe a monstrous lie . " |
| 19 | ‘ She told me to get the small details right from the start — things like hair , clothes , likes and dislikes — because it 's the small details that define an individual . ’ |
| 20 | She encouraged him to try a small amount of soft food and to take nourishing foods such as soups . |
| 21 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 22 | She ordered them to make a tiny boat with sails . |
| 23 | ‘ Turn around , ’ she suggested , her hand on his arm as she steered him to face the big window . |
| 24 | We undertook to , you sorry , you authorised us to de-recognise the three unions that were recognised in that field , if the unions agreed , I have to report that two of them have , and the other one naturally , discussions are still going on . |
| 25 | First she wanted Dot to be nice , next she wanted her to put a filthy thumb in her mouth and suck it . |
| 26 | The cat 's owner was leaving the area and could not keep the animal , and she wanted it to have a nice home . |
| 27 | Or ‘ You wanted me to have the Tuscan villa , did you not ? ’ |
| 28 | We asked her to describe the other members of her group , and she told us that it was composed largely of female relatives , their mates and children . |
| 29 | Yesterday , we asked you to name the Hindu God of Love . |
| 30 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |