Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin politely asked him to wait . |
| 2 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 3 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 4 | However , my GCSE courses eventually led me to attend university as a mature student and now I hope to become a solicitor . |
| 5 | The industry 's own appliance selling effort was not dictated purely by its retailing interests , but was biased towards winning that part of the domestic electricity load which most helped them to increase electricity sales while minimising costs overall . |
| 6 | Then the Aldwych Theatre suddenly asked him to play Bottom in A Midsummer Night 's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 7 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 8 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 9 | De Gaulle obviously expected her to say something like : ‘ So much is evident from the content . ’ |
| 10 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 11 | These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce . |
| 12 | It is evident that no blame was felt to attach to Vlasov for his part in the battle , since on 11 November Stalin personally appointed him to command 20th Army , entrusting him with 15 precious tanks and a vital role under Zhukov in the planned defence of Moscow . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 14 | She went back to the gallery , furious , shut the door , pulled down the blind , and those other guests still inside helped her to remove the paintings from the walls . |
| 15 | The moon peering in helped her to see and there was no need to switch on the light . |
| 16 | The good lady thought that he was shy , and constantly twitted him to bring him into the talk ; Paul hoped that she would get over it as the days passed , and this proved to be the case . |
| 17 | The suspicion was always there ; he only pursued her to quench an aching need . |
| 18 | And er he apparently told her to sit in the car while he finished his |
| 19 | Then he suddenly told me to fetch the chopper from the cellar . |
| 20 | The sound of someone 's throat being cleared as a preliminary to speaking aloud caused her to stop . |
| 21 | In telling me that , until my confirmation , my godparents were , by proxy , responsible for my sins , merely drove me to keep it that way . |
| 22 | He tried the same with Flora but she only told him to save it for his interview with Dr Mackintosh that morning . |
| 23 | He does n't get off any lighter just because he only told you to kill Hatton . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And since he did n't call me back , you obviously told him to keep quiet . ’ |
| 25 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 26 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 27 | Raschid who is here today was President and I attended with my own Table Chairman at that time David who not only encouraged me to attend my first A G M but encouraged me to get involved involved in ri in Round Table right from the very onset . |
| 28 | None of this was the assertion of a separate nationality ; they were all subjects of the King of England , and relied on this for their safety , but this reassuring English presence only encouraged them to manage their own local affairs in smaller and smaller units . |
| 29 | But perhaps that only encouraged them to move faster elsewhere . ’ |
| 30 | It has been rightly said that in the thirteenth century the king of France ( unlike the king of England ) possessed no direct control over the whole kingdom : ‘ outside the domain , default alone allowed him to act ’ . |