Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to stammer something about a mistake being made … that he had merely come to ask me to leave his boy alone … leave his boy alone … what a bloody liar . |
| 2 | Herman S. has just telephoned to ask me to go to the theatre with Ivy and him next Thursday — to see Samuel Beckett 's new play . |
| 3 | However , members of the public and councillors still seem to expect me to know every detail about every file in the department — an impossible task for anyone ! |
| 4 | My first meeting with was e a I doubt whether he actually remembers er but it was actually on an Inter City , I do n't know whether he does remember , on an Inter City back from London erm three or four years ago when h he also tried to get me to join the Labour Party if I remember rightly . |
| 5 | ‘ The size of my hands probably did help me to give the ball a real tweak and to develop variety in my bowling , ’ Tribe says . |
| 6 | He would really have liked me to do medicine , but I showed no interest in biology , which seemed to me to be too descriptive and not sufficiently fundamental . |
| 7 | ‘ Once I 'd begun to make love to you , could you really have asked me to stop ? ’ |
| 8 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 9 | ‘ Also , after this injury , I doubt very much whether Wigan will even consider releasing me to come down here again . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Also , after this injury , I doubt very much whether Wigan will even consider releasing me to come here again . ’ |
| 11 | Right we 'll now see chairman 's remarks which erm since Alan is not here has asked me to read . |
| 12 | He flatly refuses to allow me to stay here alone . ’ |
| 13 | One couple who own an apartment in the south of Spain are even trying to persuade me to go there . |
| 14 | ‘ If they had been , they 'd never have allowed me to mix with their children . |
| 15 | I was , however , able to reassure her on this point , as I could see no prospects of my ever getting close enough to any American for him to even ask my name , never mind ask me to marry him — and in the 1940 's you did have to wait to be asked . |
| 16 | I know that these things too are real , and yet I know that they too have helped me to find beauty . |