Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stranger followed 26year-old Janice Butler into a lift at Aintree Hospital Trust 's site in Walton , Liverpool , and asked her to push the button for his floor . |
| 2 | He came to see her every evening and asked her to recount the events of that day . |
| 3 | After checking that the proper procedures had been followed and that the incident had been fully recorded , Rachel contacted Louise Raymond , the factory welfare officer , and asked her to telephone the man 's wife and inform her that he was being admitted to hospital . |
| 4 | After breakfast , she called the housekeeper and asked her to summon the rest of the staff . |
| 5 | She became even more frightened as Athelstan outlined his request and asked her to bring the napkin as soon as possible . |
| 6 | ‘ Michael was anxious to get it sorted out and asked me to arrange the wedding . ’ |
| 7 | Their president , Gordon Stulberg , became president of Twentieth Century-Fox and asked me to direct The Poseidon Adventure , which became the company 's most profitable film . |
| 8 | ‘ When Julius phoned me yesterday and asked me to bring the files he wanted to work on , he did n't tell me you were staying here . ’ |
| 9 | Just to show I 'm nobody 's fool I contacted a veterinary surgeon and asked him to examine the dog ( who was a year old ) to make sure it was n't sickly , had a leg on each corner , would n't keep toppling over , and had a head fixed on the right end . |
| 10 | Seeing a young officer in the bar , the chairman bought Cooper-Key a drink and asked him to give the list a quick once-over . |
| 11 | His scores may not sound impressive but Clarke was obviously impressed by the Sheffielder 's effort against John Wisden , Hillyer and himself and asked him to join the ranks . |
| 12 | Kalchu spoke to the dhāmi and asked him to call the god to the shrine that night . |
| 13 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood ( Mr. Wilkinson ) intervened in the Prime Minister 's speech and asked him to specify the Government 's aims and objectives at Maastricht . |
| 15 | Daisy found him by telephone in Harrogate with the news of Fred 's death and asked him to identify the body for her . |
| 16 | Then I saw Linley , dozing in the printers ’ room , and asked him to deliver the copy . ’ |
| 17 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 18 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 19 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 20 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 21 | While Jack and Kathleen dealt with the patient , Amy rang the switchboard and asked them to pass the message on to Dr Marumba . |
| 22 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 23 | Grant McDougall , of Christie 's , said : ‘ Ray approached us and asked us to value the items . |
| 24 | Then when it appeared the problem had been solved , Morgan alleges he hid outside Docherty 's and overheard him ringing the journalist again to apologise for his outburst claiming it was only done to fool the player . |
| 25 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 26 | Then the scuffles subside and I think I hear my bedroom door opening , so my finger tightens on the trigger and I hear my name and I shake my head and I recognize the voice and I know it is Jancey and she 's shouting where am I and I think they 've grabbed her and made her act the decoy and I 'm trying to work out what to do when I hear what she 's saying . |
| 27 | The other car had skidded into hers and made her forget the phone call . |
| 28 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 29 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 30 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |