Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And he still got Ibn Fayoud to jock her off . |
| 2 | I was quite excited and asked Andy Norman to help me . |
| 3 | The BBC subsequently bought the broadcasting rights to the play and commissioned David Whitaker to adapt it for Television . |
| 4 | I asked Miss Matlock to bring me up a thermos of soup and a plate of smoked salmon sandwiches at six o'clock . |
| 5 | At the instigation of the then Mines and Energy Minister , Vicente Cavalcante Fialho , Sarney in April 1989 dismissed the chief executive of the state oil company PETROBRAS , Orlando Galva , after only three months in office and appointed Carlos Sant'Anna to replace him . |
| 6 | When it came to things he did not know how to draw , he often asked Bobby Hunt to do them . |
| 7 | The Executive Committee invited William Black to meet them and I , too , was asked to attend and speak . |
| 8 | Whenever Minton entered Mr Alexander greeted him by leading the band into one of his two favourite songs : ‘ My Very Good Friend the Milkman ’ or ‘ I 'm Gon na Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter ’ . |
| 9 | Earlier yesterday Mr Denktash , who heads a breakaway state in the north recognised only by Ankara , invited Mr Clerides to meet him in Cyprus and said holding talks in New York would be futile . |
| 10 | ‘ They are the ones who invited Mr Adams to address them just 500 yards from the Grand Hotel which some of us have cause to remember ; to address them less than two weeks after the time when , along the coast at Deal , 10 young musicians in the Royal Marines were foully murdered . |
| 11 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 12 | So we agreed about tea , and invited Father D'Arcy to join us . |
| 13 | Medau teachers invited Patricia McCall to instruct them in the principles of Laban Movement at their September Training Day ; in St Andrews , Rosalind Garton follows her evening Medau class immediately with a Yoga session , and is delighted by the enthusiasm shown for the idea . |
| 14 | Sources told NME Moz offered them the support slot after being ‘ knocked out ’ by a recent performance . |
| 15 | Strapping himself into the vacated chair , he entreated Rogal Dorn to guide him — then emptied his mind of all but titanic tech thoughts . |
| 16 | After a discussion with Ira Dilworth I telegraphed Dr Liu requesting him to inform Chiang Kai-Shek that I could be available to go to China on a month 's notice . |
| 17 | According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague . |
| 18 | I told Mr Kennedy to put them in the kennels last night . |
| 19 | The trio were so utterly absorbed in each other for the next half hour that none of them noticed Rose Williams watching them from some little distance , her face screwed into a sour smile of bitterness and longing . |
| 20 | The two men told Mrs Robinson to take them to her rich friends . |
| 21 | It 's alleged that later in the day the defendants abducted James Bolger took him to a railway embankment and murdered him . |
| 22 | And in fact , I overheard Sir Ewen say it 's been the smallest for the past hundred years . ’ |
| 23 | The Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna made her first practical contribution to the improvement of conditions in the countryside when she asked Nikolai Miliutin to tell her how to free the serfs on her Ukrainian estate of Karlovka . |
| 24 | ‘ So he 's not likely to have knocked on the door yesterday evening and asked Sir Paul to let him in . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I asked Sir John to burn it to the ground but Rachel played him like a piece of string around her finger . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose you heard I asked Sister Marcus to get you replaced ? ’ |
| 27 | EC commitments kept John Major 's Mr Europe hundreds of miles away when 26-year-old Julian asked sweetheart Anna to marry him . |
| 28 | The deceased , while Mr. Smith was , fortuitously and temporarily , out of the room , asked Mr. Morgan to hand him a piece of paper . |
| 29 | In this letter the deceased referred to various of his investments and asked Mr. Clarke to let him know ‘ the present value of each of my holdings . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I allowed William Ash to bully me most of my life because I loved him , because I thought he was my father ! |