Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teesside Polytechnic BA student Jonathan Welfare has invented an easy to use cardboard poop scoop which might be used by Middlesbrough council dog wardens . |
| 2 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 3 | It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to . |
| 4 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 5 | Would I have to take a flexi-day to play for England ? … mmm , I wonder ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you 've got a right to know . |
| 7 | and then Ann started that little line trussing you see , so we 've done it between us but I 've got a thousand to do and she 's got about four d t |
| 8 | A problem I have which I hope you can solve is that I wish to build a ammeter to test alternator outputs . |
| 9 | If those boys in Karachi had found an 8 to hook on the scoreboard those 33 long winters ago , instead of rummaging fruitlessly about on all fours , the runs he sought on a misfield from the penultimate ball of the day would never have been attempted . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’ |
| 11 | The fans have got a right to expect that , ’ said Keegan . |
| 12 | Simply , the need for delegation arises where one person feels it appropriate to ask a subordinate to carry out tasks which he or she would normally do . |