Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 2 | I bet they asked them to fill in a form for it |
| 3 | Another has been tested by P T Breuer ( 1991 ) , who used it to speed up a game playing program . |
| 4 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 5 | She told me to hang on a bit , and then I was talking to this David Kendrew bloke — the one on the programme — the one Mum 's always on about . |
| 6 | Peter owned London Postal Services , and he offered me £5000 and told me to put together a package . |
| 7 | When our children say , as they all do , ‘ but my friends are all doing this ’ , parents invariably say , smartly , ‘ and if they told you to jump off a cliff , would you ? ’ |
| 8 | The police advised her to take out a summons against her neighbours . |
| 9 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 10 | Again Ted demurred , but the Parliamentary Party 's unease over the procedure for new leadership elections caused him to set up a review committee under Alec Home . |
| 11 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 12 | Common Law allowed us to cut up a freehold estate into successive estates , each recognized by Common Law . |
| 13 | Arithmetic not only took my mind off the leg , but also spurred me to keep up a pace of four miles an hour . |
| 14 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |
| 15 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 16 | But Palmer 's connection with the Union enabled him to build up a link with leaders of the advanced wing of the high church party . |
| 17 | Patrick 's identification of the body enabled him to write out a death certificate , which he handed to PC Bartholomew with a note of the other details . |
| 18 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce . |
| 20 | ‘ He wanted me to pass on a message to the police . |
| 21 | She said that it did not matter whether or not he knew Alexander Atkins and instructed him to take down a message for him . |