Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all it was I who recommended them to use Nadirpur . ’ |
| 2 | Before that all the students had taken a course which qualified them to teach children for their first five years in school . |
| 3 | He expected me to ask questions but I carefully refrained from showing interest . |
| 4 | ‘ That Francis expected me to buy Sleet from Leon . ’ |
| 5 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 6 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 7 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 8 | They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment . |
| 9 | They farmed indulgences for the Popes which , naturally , led them to patronise Luther 's opponents . |
| 10 | On top of that is the fact that the society and type of education they have received both led them to expect wage employment — probably in an office … . |
| 11 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 12 | The achievements of their monitored sexual athletes led them to prescribe standards of sexual behaviour which were quite unrealistic in terms of ordinary people living normal lives . |
| 13 | A few months later the Oxfordshire Education Committee responded to 10/65 by appointing me as co-ordinator for the Banbury reorganization , and commissioned me to submit plans : the noisy sewage pump had done its work . |
| 14 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Much to my surprise and delight , sure enough in ‘ 84 he contacted me and asked me to take part in the Mozart ‘ Coronation ’ Mass to be performed in front of the Pope the following year . |
| 16 | On Wednesday last I had an interview with the Archbishop and he asked me to leave Kidlington and go to a vacant parish in Birmingham ( Rednal ) where a friend of mine had died recently . |
| 17 | " Just before we left Iran , the Shah asked me to call Sadat , but the telephone was on strike , the telex also . |
| 18 | At last he reached me and asked me to demonstrate el thwing . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel guilty because a teacher in school asked me to stay friends with her after we left , but somehow I never seem to have time . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He asked me to check data on a recent employee . |
| 21 | The man beckoned to me as I stood around vaguely , and asked me to fetch cognac for him , vodka with ice for his wife and … what for Nell ? |
| 22 | Mr asked me to come Wednesday when you went . |
| 23 | Today , when he asked me to alter dialogue I 'd already learned once more — I refused . |
| 24 | ‘ Then he asked me to tell Ince he would definitely be playing in Spain . |
| 25 | Refreshed and a little more composed after my love tryst , I went back to Richmond where Benjamin asked me to accompany Southgate to collect stores from the Tower . |
| 26 | It was a rebellion which led me to take wife and kids from the suburbs into the peace of the countryside . |
| 27 | Mention of the Paints quality programme led me to ask Chris Hampson about the overall ICI approach to quality improvement . |
| 28 | However , my GCSE courses eventually led me to attend university as a mature student and now I hope to become a solicitor . |
| 29 | In 1810 Miss Weeton wrote to her brother : ‘ Mr. Green , the artist , requested me to stand Godmother for his child on Thursday last ( 11th October ) . |
| 30 | ‘ We interviewed five design outfits and asked them to submit plans . |