Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My thanks to David Bogie , studio manager and Fish for their time and patience — and for allowing me to visit the Funny Farm . |
| 2 | I am most grateful to her for allowing me to use this remarkable case study of John . |
| 3 | " Thank you for the tea — and thank you for allowing me to join your table . " |
| 4 | I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon ( Mr. Amess ) for allowing me to say a few words on a matter that is so important to my constituents and to his . |
| 5 | Well anyway Mr Chatfield , thank you very much for allowing me to ask |
| 6 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you for allowing me to go through his papers . ’ |
| 8 | Bless 'em all thank you as well to Radio Nottingham for allowing me to come in as part of my successful bid for Money Spinner . |
| 9 | Thank you very much for allowing me to come . |
| 10 | In compiling this book I am extremely grateful to Butterworth & Co Ltd for allowing me to reproduce precedents and text from Volume 22 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents ( 5th edn ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you so much , ’ she said sarcastically , ‘ for allowing me to eat with such revered company , but I 'm tired now . |
| 12 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) for allowing me to intervene briefly in this debate . |
| 13 | I am much indebted to the Commission staff , in particular to Mr Collin Bowen , for allowing me to show plans in advance of publication of this , and of the other sites in the county . |
| 14 | I would also like to thank the Nature Conservancy Council 's Upland Vegetation Survey and Andrew Currie for allowing me to quote from their unpublished reports . |
| 15 | I am particularly indebted to Keith Bennett and Julie Fossitt for allowing me to quote their unpublished results from Loch Lang ; to Hilary Birks and Keith Bennett for reading the manuscript ; and to Hilary Birks for word-processing . |
| 16 | I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter . |
| 17 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) for allowing me to speak in this valuable debate . |
| 18 | Er thank you Chairman for allowing me to speak as a non member , I am however , a er member of one of your representatives on the Luton Airport Consultative Committee . |
| 19 | Thank you , WOMAN , for helping me to take pride in myself again , by giving away a free lipstick and perfume recently . |
| 20 | Thank you Betty for helping me to win this award . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you , Murphy , that although I am immensely grateful to you for helping me to repair the shed to make a hen house and for finding me the things I need , these are my hens and I shall look after them . |
| 22 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 23 | Kenneth drove me here last Sunday after helping me to load the car with clothes , shoes , video recorder , sound equipment , books , photos , kettle , mug , hot-water-bottle ( never go anywhere without it ) and all the required paraphernalia of a season away from home . |
| 24 | Anyway tapped on window for told me to come in and says will you tell your mate to move his car . |
| 25 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 26 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 27 | Tony Greenbank returned to clean an obvious corner groove line and made the mistake of asking me to test a hold . |
| 28 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 29 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 30 | They would never have dreamed of telling me to take a certain attitude towards white people . |