Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 2 | He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters . |
| 3 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 4 | Then something , a movement to her right , caused her to turn that way . |
| 5 | ‘ I told her to check that seal . ’ |
| 6 | " You would n't get the wrong idea if I asked you to put that light out , would you ? " she asked . |
| 7 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 8 | And it needed something to break that cycle . |
| 9 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 10 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 11 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
| 12 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 13 | I married someone to get that life . |
| 14 | ‘ Nobody forced you to buy that house . ’ |
| 15 | He wanted me to put that bit on , you know there are the two bolts |
| 16 | Then Hughes induced me to make that error , and then removed Graeme Hick . |
| 17 | I wanted him to make that decision . |
| 18 | He does n't think Joe wanted it to end that way . |