Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to take the children for a full medical . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) asked me to list the contributions of our European Community partners . |
| 3 | Nick asked me to read the putts with him but still nothing happened . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 6 | Every time the pollsters asked them to list the issues that most concerned them , the Scots obstinately placed those matters that fail to excite emissaries from the London media at the top — unemployment , the NHS , education — just as in comparable parts of the UK . |
| 7 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 8 | ( 15b ) He helped me to climb the stairs by cheering me on . |
| 9 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 10 | She went back to the gallery , furious , shut the door , pulled down the blind , and those other guests still inside helped her to remove the paintings from the walls . |
| 11 | She got out , pulling up the hood of her waterproof , and helped him to carry the crates up the drive . |
| 12 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
| 13 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 14 | Brenner used it to identify the relations between macroeconomic variables and the measures of national health during the economic cycles that took place in the course of several decades . |
| 15 | The Christian Democrats used it to win the votes of farmers . |
| 16 | Speaking to shareholders at the company 's annual meeting , Mr Sherwood told them to resist the advances of a predator . |
| 17 | Once inside her room she 'd called reception and told them to get the police . |
| 18 | He , too , was being provocative , quite deliberately making it a clash of wills , but still smiling as he told me to get the bags into the Toyota . |
| 19 | Oh everything , they give me a stack of batteries , they told me to change the batteries after every three tapes |
| 20 | Because tranquillisers simply mask symptoms rather than provide a cure , you may need to seek help to deal with the problem which caused you to need the tablets in the first place . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you to take the feet off , ’ said Patrick . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I told you to do the potatoes ? |
| 23 | ‘ I got on the radio to my controller and told him to call the police quick . ’ |
| 24 | Some of Hugo 's drunken friends told him to let the hounds chase her , and so he ran from the house and unlocked the dogs . |
| 25 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 26 | He came away from the Old Entrance , having collected those of the destroyer 's crew not taken off by ML 6 , and as Micky Wynn came up with his special MTB , Robert Ryder told him to fire the torpedoes at the outer lock gate in the Old Entrance . |
| 27 | The British ambassador at Constantinople , meanwhile , was pro-Turkish to the point of ignoring instructions from London which told him to advise the Turks to give ground to Russia . |
| 28 | But this does not stop Abse constructing an elaborate thesis based on Thatcher 's ‘ sphincter morality ’ , for which her mother , Beatrice , should really take the blame : ‘ Thatcher succeeded in initiating the electorate into a new form of gambling : her personal need to end the earlier constraints which she had endured , outlawing the joys of shitting and coprophilia , drove her to open the doors of the Stock Exchange , and end its exclusivity . ’ |
| 29 | His lawyer , Mr Ratcliffe , advised him to obtain the services of William Fearnley Whittingshall , a brilliant young barrister . |
| 30 | Bunny told her to call the actors for the last act . |