Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 2 | ‘ She asked me to inquire about the case . |
| 3 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 4 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
| 5 | She asked me to stand by the gate while she spoke to him . " |
| 6 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 7 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 8 | He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation … |
| 9 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 10 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 11 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 12 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 13 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 14 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 15 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 16 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 17 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 18 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 19 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 20 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 22 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 23 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 24 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 25 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 26 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 27 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 28 | But I must say how said it made me to hear of the death of Walter the Gardener . |
| 29 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 30 | In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked . |