Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 5 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 6 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 7 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 8 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 9 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 10 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 11 | I told you to put some orange in there . |
| 12 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 13 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 14 | More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed one 's own reason for looking to this community was presumably that , as a Christian , one needed oneself to make some reference to Christ . |
| 16 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 17 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 18 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 19 | The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ . |
| 20 | The final withdrawal without major disaster enabled them to preserve some profit . |
| 21 | Then her hairdresser persuaded her to do some modelling . |
| 22 | ‘ Unless you did it to gain some advantage , of course . ’ |
| 23 | They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it . |
| 24 | But now I think there 's nothing more we can do here , and it 's time we left you to get some rest . |
| 25 | Several hours later he drove her half a mile to a car park in Whitehorse Lane , South Norwood , near Sainsbury 's supermarket , and forced her to take some money from a cash point machine . |
| 26 | I think you wanted them to have some time together but … but perhaps not most of the night , ’ she finished on a whisper . |
| 27 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 28 | The Natural History Museum wanted me to complete some ecology wallcharts of ponds and streams , sponsored by British petroleum , who have a long standing relationship with the Museum , aimed at encouraging and supporting a better understanding of current environmental issues . |
| 29 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |
| 30 | Perhaps he even considered himself to have some kind of claim to the place ? |