Example sentences of "you [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You asked me to do the Wigan archiving |
| 2 | ‘ Do you want me to blow the candle out ? ’ |
| 3 | Do you want me to wet the front down ? |
| 4 | Do you want me to wet the front down or is that alright ? |
| 5 | I said do you want me to do the chicken ? |
| 6 | Do you want me to do the gravy ? |
| 7 | I said I 'm going back now do you want me to leave the kitchen light on ? |
| 8 | Do you want me to draw the curtain , Daddy ? ’ |
| 9 | alright , do you want me to close the door ? |
| 10 | Do you want me to put the sound on ? |
| 11 | ‘ Do you want me to shut the shop ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , why did n't you want me to touch the skull ? ’ |
| 13 | Likewise , if instead of saying , ‘ there is a patient outside ’ , I could say ( out of role ) , ‘ In a short while I will be a patient coming to the consultant 's office — how do you want me to play the role ? |
| 14 | Or do you want me to beat the truth out of you ? ’ |
| 15 | Erm so they 'd wan na know well you know if it 's a shopping change then erm , do you want me to change the day ? |
| 16 | Do you want me to change the place I go to ? |
| 17 | Do you want me to change what I buy , do you want me to change the time I do it ? |
| 18 | And do you want me to ring the Oban hotel and tell them what 's happened and change the booking ? |
| 19 | Seeing it features in your catalogue , would you prefer me to send the copies back to you ? |
| 20 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 21 | ‘ Yet you expect me to conduct the case and arrive at decisions , even order an arrest , while sitting at a desk . ’ |
| 22 | You want them to enjoy the books that imagination and curiosity thrive on . |
| 23 | You want me to hold the teddy ? |
| 24 | ‘ You sussed that I am in with Carmichael , and you want me to put the drop on him . ’ |
| 25 | You want me to do the gravy ? |
| 26 | ‘ And you want me to do the flying ? ’ |
| 27 | And you want me to tell the warren that young — er — young — er — your brother here has got a hunch and we must all go trapesing across country to goodness knows where and risk the consequences , eh ? |
| 28 | You want her to feel the pleasure you know you 're going to feel : but you play your body at the pitch and rhythm you sense in hers . |
| 29 | Erm i if you want anything to stop the pain I 'll give it you . |
| 30 | Can you trust them to tell the truth about where they 're going ? |