Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do you want me to ring the Oban hotel and tell them what 's happened and change the booking ? |
| 2 | contacting employers and encouraging them to use the ES to fill their vacancies ; |
| 3 | You asked me to do the Wigan archiving |
| 4 | ‘ One paper asked me to pick the Derby winner and I picked the first four . |
| 5 | Their president , Gordon Stulberg , became president of Twentieth Century-Fox and asked me to direct The Poseidon Adventure , which became the company 's most profitable film . |
| 6 | He said of his team : ‘ I want them to win the FA Cup for a start . |
| 7 | ‘ They all want me to get the Hitman 's autograph . |
| 8 | ‘ Father did n't forbid me to leave the Grange garden ! |
| 9 | Congress , I urge you to support the Swan 's workforce , support the people on Tyneside , and do all that 's in your power to retain ship building on the Tyne . |
| 10 | In 1965 von Karajan spotted his talent and invited him to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at his Salzburg Festival . |
| 11 | BRITISH Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it to buy the Rover car company in 1988 , it has been announced . |
| 12 | The aircraft was sold then to Francisco Sarabia , who used it to break the Mexico City to New York record in 1938 . |
| 13 | In Spain the struggle over the succession in 1702–13 had seen a prolonged effort by Catalonia and much of Aragon to throw off Castilian rule , an effort which drove them to support the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the eventually victorious Bourbon claimant to the throne , Philip V , grandson of Louis XIV . |
| 14 | ‘ You told me to take the Riverton file down to the vault . |
| 15 | He told me to adopt the Perry Como technique . |
| 16 | The main sheet is not a sheet at all , but in fact a rope which allows you to control the Topper 's one sail . |
| 17 | This is an excellent program that allows you to load the UK version of the entire King James version of the bible . |
| 18 | , now recovered from a spell in hospital which caused her to miss the Coburg course , sends her best wishes to you all and sincere thanks for all the lovely cards , letters and flowers which she was delighted to receive . |
| 19 | The model allows us to recast the DFR equation for cells in a table , rather than for individual values . |
| 20 | We will arrange collection from you at a later date of the masters and PAL copy masters , but would like you to store the NTSC and SECAM copy masters for future use . |
| 21 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 22 | The young Labour supporting , Tory-voting car dealer thinks if Labour won power it would use it to support the IRA and gay rights . |
| 23 | That allowed it to weather the Thatcher bombardment . |
| 24 | In entertainment I 'd think the reduc cost reductions there were pretty well , er restricted to good housekeeping , but from fine china er , we managed to transfer the , the er , work in the Minton factory to the Knowle Street factory and that allowed us to close the Minton factory and quite apart from the redundancies that entailed , we saved something like two hundred and fifty thousand er , non staff related overhead . |
| 25 | ‘ Patrick McGoohan , who wrote the series , was looking for a car to use and Lotus tried to persuade him to use the Elan , ’ says Graham Nearn , managing director of Caterham Cars , which still makes the Seven today . |
| 26 | ‘ He is more hip than any man I know , ’ says film executive Mark Canton , who helped to make Jack as rich as he is today , by persuading him to play The Joker in Batman . |
| 27 | The investigation follows disclosures from Mr John Bourn , the Comptroller and Auditor General , that Britain has hidden from the EC a £38 million package of sweeteners to British Aerospace to persuade it to buy the Rover Group . |
| 28 | He urged them to back the Brady plan , pointing to the socio-political unrest that might follow the failure to provide economic support for strategically important developing countries . |
| 29 | ‘ Miss Kyte , ’ said Araminta , a most unusual smirk on her face , and with a note of pride in her voice , ‘ allow me to present the Reverend Mr Saul Quatt . ’ |
| 30 | If you achieved such a quantity of quality work in the theatre , they would be tipping you to lead the RSC . |