Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them limped women carrying everything they had left , stuffed inside plastic buckets and bags balanced on their heads . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked Sarah to leave Hassan and come back to me . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Then I asked Service to send me up some food and a large pot of coffee . |
| 5 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 6 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I asked Mum to help me . |
| 9 | I asked Kim to put down on paper in a few sentences how she felt about her new shape . |
| 10 | I asked Jesus to help us , and to forgive Jack and me and to make Dad happy . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | I asked Daniel to leave . |
| 13 | TO ROUND OFF THIS PIECE , I asked Yngwie to list ten albums which he considers essential listening for all guitarists . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 16 | ‘ I asked Jaggers to find a little girl for me to adopt , and he brought Estella here , when she was about three . ’ |
| 17 | One day I asked permission to photograph the largest house in Goa . |
| 18 | I was treated like a servant so I asked Freddie to find me a place of my own . |
| 19 | ‘ It would be better if I asked Marie-Christine to point the way , Uncle Gaston , if that 's what you wish . ’ |
| 20 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 21 | I asked Rooney to discuss some of his recent paintings starting with ‘ Why are we Leaving ? painted in 1989 . |
| 22 | I asked children to think of a witches ' stew and this is what they suggested to put on a sign on the wall : |
| 23 | I asked Justin to tell me why . |
| 24 | • At our first counselling session I asked Valerie to describe Keith 's character ; he was loving , caring and independent . |
| 25 | One Sunday I asked Biddy to come for a walk on the marshes . |
| 26 | We sat on her bedroom floor , surrounded by a stack of Looks , Elle , Cosmopolitan and Just 17 magazines , and I asked Janet to describe herself . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked Budd to telephone the police in quite a peremptory way , as I considered he should have done this before . ’ |
| 28 | And so , wrote Jimmy Carter , rather casually , " I asked Cy to scout around to help him find a place to stay . " |
| 29 | Roger usually introduced us to his girl-friends across the breakfast table , so this one had to be important and in the two weeks before her arrival I asked Rog to teach me a formal French greeting . |
| 30 | I asked Duncan to come over the road and look at the unmade road where I 'd left Armstrong . |