Example sentences of "[verb] me [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do you want me to elaborate on that ? ’
2 ‘ Do you really want me to go into all the nasty , seedy little details ?
3 Do you want me to go through that again ?
4 Do you want me to go through this for spellings ?
5 ‘ What do you want me to do about these ? ’
6 ‘ What do you want me to do about this left-luggage key , sir ? ’
7 Equals now what do you want me to do with all these ?
8 What do you want me to do with this ?
9 erm do you want me to speak to this
10 Do you want me to comment on that as we go through or
11 Encouraging me to follow in this way perhaps , but moving too fast for me to believe that she wanted me to do that , she entered a revolving door of dark polished wood , mahogany and glass , and started to go round and round , looking out at me as she turned .
12 ‘ Thank you so much , ’ she said sarcastically , ‘ for allowing me to eat with such revered company , but I 'm tired now .
13 I am grateful to both the hon. Member for Wellingborough ( Mr. Fry ) and the Minister for their generosity in allowing me to contribute to this Adjournment debate .
14 I am grateful to the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) for allowing me to speak in this valuable debate .
15 The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training .
16 Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley .
17 Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered .
18 ‘ Are you sure you want me to talk about this .
19 ‘ You want me to pay for this information ? ’
20 When he saw Mrs Goreng disembarking from her jeep , he at once made himself scarce , retiring through the back of the shop to his living-quarters and instructing me to deal with this dissatisfied , difficult , and , in all likelihood , dangerous customer .
21 ‘ And you expect me to agree to all that ?
22 ‘ I suppose you expect me to pay for that drink , do you ? ’
23 Neither council wants me to deal with this as a late objection .
24 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton ; If the Hon. Gentleman wants me to go into more detail , I shall do so .
25 You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress .
26 Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ?
27 Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way .
28 ‘ Do you expect me to apologise for all this ? ’ he asked in a rough voice .
29 For a start you do n't expect me to behave like some sort of stud .
30 ‘ You do n't honestly expect me to agree to that idea ? ’
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