Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While sending hearty congratulations to the trophy winners , Central Council also offers sincere thanks to all the Branches whose extra endeavours led them to beat their own previous records . |
| 2 | She asked me to give you some good advice . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Benedict asked me to give you this , miss , quiet like . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She asked me to call her that . |
| 5 | The upshot of this long sessions was that Eliot asked me to send him all the relevant documents , which I did in a letter of 20 May . |
| 6 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 7 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 8 | Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems . |
| 9 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 10 | Why had she allowed herself to respond like that , invited him to kiss her that way ? |
| 11 | The feminist arguments in favour of dialogic forms of language use helped her to clarify her own reasons for employing discursive metaphor and parody , and the gendering by feminists of the notion of the ‘ bad copy ’ enabled her to incorporate her own techniques of mis-representation into a readily recognizable social context . |
| 12 | Hobson 's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own , quite distinct , theory of imperialism . |
| 13 | I told them to do their own dirty work . |
| 14 | In telling me that , until my confirmation , my godparents were , by proxy , responsible for my sins , merely drove me to keep it that way . |
| 15 | You told me to take it all the way out . |
| 16 | I asked her if he 'd returned home and she told me to mind my own business . |
| 17 | When I reported this to Control , Donleavy told me to warn Hurley , who told me to mind my own business . |
| 18 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 19 | Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him . |
| 20 | She told someone to tell you that ? |
| 21 | ‘ An ’ I told himself to empty it this morning' , ’ muttered Nessie as she made her way out . |
| 22 | She was now a companion and friend rather than a nursemaid and domestic servant ; she prepared herself to run her own household and developed her skills as a needlewoman . |
| 23 | Her feet felt sharp and heavy and round ; her toes like horn ) , and implored her to set her any task , she 'd undertake any ordeal , in return for restoring the bird to human shape and then setting him free . |
| 24 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |
| 25 | In Havana in April , Fidel Castro politely told him to mind his own business . |
| 26 | It told him to have nothing more to do with them : ‘ We have reached this decision as a result of the meeting with you and the police this morning . ’ |
| 27 | She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit . |
| 28 | It was that very irrevocability that caused him to lift his own confidentiality order leading to OSF spilling the beans . |
| 29 | Do you think that 's why they asked you to buy your own protective clothing or was that normal ? |
| 30 | But spreading the work out though actually extended the administration costs and not giving start and finish times that were fairly tight , so the people doing the work allowed them to make their own judgments on when it was going to be done . |