Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 4 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 5 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 6 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 8 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 9 | Made me laugh last night , he said erm I , I , I always do a load of spuds he said even if it 's |
| 10 | Thanks once again for a charming picture — it made me smile all day . |
| 11 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 12 | So the A fifty nine well let me put it let me put another question , does the A sixty one serve a similar function to the A fifty nine ? |
| 13 | Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question . |
| 14 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 15 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 16 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 17 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 18 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 19 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 20 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 21 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 22 | A key change was to ‘ remove that part which the Bar told me implied undue interference by the Lord Chancellor , as a minister of the Crown , with the processes of justice . |
| 23 | This caused me to regrade double jacquard . |
| 24 | As I opened the case I heard a groaning , splintering noise , which caused me to experience extreme pain as the bridge flew off and whacked me on the side of the head ! |
| 25 | Early on within this game I th when Blackburn scored I thought this game would be taken away from 'em . |
| 26 | She has woven her spell and allowed me to see another world , another life , a life of the spirit . |
| 27 | I am invited from time to time to sow the seeds of Medau , and last time Brown Owl allowed me to present each girl with a Medau leaflet . |
| 28 | It was the emergence of the Chinese Lesbian Group which allowed me to start this process of healing and accepting myself . |
| 29 | He ordered me to cut this lot immediately ’ — he laid heavy stress on the word , his mouth twisted in a sardonic grin — ‘ and I told him it would have to wait till this afternoon . ’ |
| 30 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |