Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we expected them to solve the problem for us . |
| 2 | The growing materialism of the age led them to envisage the hereafter as the eternal ‘ Now ’ , and depict survival in terms of the senses . |
| 3 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 4 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 5 | Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian . |
| 6 | ‘ Michael was anxious to get it sorted out and asked me to arrange the wedding . ’ |
| 7 | He asked me to hold the coffee up to his lips and I was gone . |
| 8 | You asked me to do the Wigan archiving |
| 9 | As soon as Ken Hurren mentioned the word in his office this morning , when he asked me to take the task on , I felt a secret dismay . |
| 10 | They asked me to take the children for a full medical . |
| 11 | He asked me to join the Party . |
| 12 | One mother held up an emaciated child , and in sign language asked me to vaccinate the baby . |
| 13 | At all events , when I mentioned it to Heather , she asked me to repeat the name of the restaurant . |
| 14 | ‘ He asked me to circulate the story of his death . |
| 15 | If you remember , yesterday afternoon , after the funeral , Francis asked me to lock the studio and bring him the key . |
| 16 | ‘ One paper asked me to pick the Derby winner and I picked the first four . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) asked me to list the contributions of our European Community partners . |
| 18 | Nick asked me to read the putts with him but still nothing happened . |
| 19 | But I was glad we could n't because they asked me to read the lesson . |
| 20 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 21 | The Member for Ogmore also asked me to consider the question of enforcement . |
| 22 | In went the putt and he asked me to keep the ball because he wanted to take it home and get it mounted instead of throwing it to the crowd . |
| 23 | He asked me to contact the War Commission . |
| 24 | Their president , Gordon Stulberg , became president of Twentieth Century-Fox and asked me to direct The Poseidon Adventure , which became the company 's most profitable film . |
| 25 | ‘ When Julius phoned me yesterday and asked me to bring the files he wanted to work on , he did n't tell me you were staying here . ’ |
| 26 | I remember the elocution teacher was very keen on the modern plays that were being published then — and I know we worked on Pinter which actually led me to use the part of Mick in The Caretaker for my subsequent auditions in England for a place in drama school . |
| 27 | In my opinion in Ex parte Agegate Ltd. , the fact that the residence requirement was applicable to British citizens and nationals of other member states alike was the main element in the reasoning which led me to take the view , unlike the court , that that requirement was compatible with Community law : see para. 57 . |
| 28 | It is against this background that I approached the construction and which led me to prefer the interpretation which bases the assessment to tax upon the actual cost to the employer rather than the hypothetical cost arrived at by dividing the number of pupils into the total cost of providing full facilities . |
| 29 | Crossing in Force 9 winds led me to lament the absence of a grab-rail in the shower . |
| 30 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |