Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time I spent alone with her … those hours allowed me to gather strength to go on with my deception . |
| 2 | The magistrates obtained an Act authorising them to borrow £160,000 to build part of a range of docks designed by John Rennie . |
| 3 | When the campaign in North Africa ended in success for the Allies in May everyone expected Joe to come home , but his company went straight to Italy . |
| 4 | Everyone has work to do here and the effect is unsettling . |
| 5 | But everyone needs support to deal with a highly demanding environment . |
| 6 | Everyone needs exercise to keep healthy . |
| 7 | Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events , the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available . |
| 8 | Besides , if done quickly enough , nothing has time to respond or to cover itself over , scared of a snatched soul bleeding dry . |
| 9 | It has done nothing to encourage banks to reserve against dodgy loans or write them off , for some banks risk insolvency if they do so . |
| 10 | No-one needs money to come in here . ’ |
| 11 | Three of them propose rules to make political bribery more difficult . |
| 12 | But will some of them propose ways to eliminate the ‘ bad ’ genes from others ? |
| 13 | Governors of schools are the most frequently mentioned group and Circular 6/81 asked them to encourage schools to carry out a review . |
| 14 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 15 | It also notes that teachers ' present contracts make it difficult for them to find time to run extra-curricular activities like choirs . |
| 16 | ‘ I asked Sarah to leave Hassan and come back to me . |
| 17 | I asked Terry to come along because one of the things I tho I tho I hope we might get round to spending a few minutes on was about Alan 's raised it before about records coming in er , and what the state of the game is in records coming into us and how we 're transferring that information , or not transferring that information onto dep onto department 's national curriculum er material |
| 18 | Then I asked Service to send me up some food and a large pot of coffee . |
| 19 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 20 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |
| 21 | I asked Jeanne to find as many friends as possible to accompany her on walks with Moby , and to give them control of the lead and take him away to explore without her if they felt confident . |
| 22 | ‘ I asked Mum to help me . |
| 23 | I asked Kim to put down on paper in a few sentences how she felt about her new shape . |
| 24 | I asked Jesus to help us , and to forgive Jack and me and to make Dad happy . |
| 25 | But erm o one of the things that I asked Jane to look at was we want , it 's quite an expensive operation is this just in our salaries and the loss of fees from us from twenty four people |
| 26 | I asked Daniel to leave . |
| 27 | TO ROUND OFF THIS PIECE , I asked Yngwie to list ten albums which he considers essential listening for all guitarists . |
| 28 | I asked Alan to fish the first drift , in order to settle down , and towards the end he suggested that I put up the dap . |
| 29 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 30 | ‘ I asked Jaggers to find a little girl for me to adopt , and he brought Estella here , when she was about three . ’ |