Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 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 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 8 | She made me repeat it five times . |
| 9 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 10 | And erm they tasted I mean we all used to have a taste of it and it tasted quite nice ! |
| 11 | I tried I saw him one day on , I crept up in my and I took it out of the window and all I 've got is the . |
| 12 | And I cleared the lot except six baskets and they were all in good condition , so I was glad of these six baskets really because it helped you to give them one or two more . |
| 13 | Why had she allowed herself to respond like that , invited him to kiss her that way ? |
| 14 | But as it was , when the generals entered they had it all their own presumptuous way . |
| 15 | He spread an artist 's folio before her , untied the ribbons with delicate fingers , and invited her to lay it open . |
| 16 | She wanted to see him in loons ; she let him buy her those boots . |
| 17 | I 'm about 5'7 ’ and found it fitted me fine , although as with all sacks , it took a couple of days of walking to get the best adjustment . |
| 18 | And we 've got you know that is actually a lot lower than it used to be because we they actually caught us charging them three hundred and fifty quid for a bearing that we 're now charging them two hundred and fifty quid for . |
| 19 | In telling me that , until my confirmation , my godparents were , by proxy , responsible for my sins , merely drove me to keep it that way . |
| 20 | You told me to take it all the way out . |
| 21 | Luke told me to leave you alone . |
| 22 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 23 | She told me to keep it quiet . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | I believed I owed him some debt . |
| 26 | The woman who drove you told us all about it . |
| 27 | That evening you visited your GP who told you to take it easy and prescribed a course of tranquillizers . |
| 28 | But erm it is , sh but her friend er , still when she came she bought us this , was this big erm it was like that big , by about that big of Harlequin sweets for us all . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |