Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was , after all , living with a man who was stealing from me , keeping part of his life secret from me , who expected me to adapt myself to his obsessive timekeeping . |
| 2 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 3 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 4 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 5 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 6 | Sid helped me carry them to that table ready for serving . |
| 7 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 8 | Others , however , felt a similar shudder at the thought of telling and discussing the political jokes about contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and advised me to confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 9 | The first caller , smoking a cigarette , implored me to buy something to ‘ take him off the dole ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ They told me to give it to you , Headmaster , ’ said Robert . |
| 11 | My uncle told me to bring her to you and we 've been here about twenty minutes . ’ |
| 12 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 13 | When she returned from the shops , Mum told me to accompany her to the Captain 's to ask if we could have the Mission Hall for the wedding . |
| 14 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 15 | Although she begged me to say nothing to her father , I went straight to the master and told him . |
| 16 | ‘ It was through their trust that I was in this unique position to walk among them , and I felt I owed it to them not to let them down . ’ |
| 17 | I KILLED little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general . |
| 18 | ‘ I came back because I felt I owed it to County Durham , many of my ideas for the book were inspired here , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be . |
| 20 | Did I mention him to you ? |
| 21 | I 'll tell you the reason why I like to record what we say , somebody came to our house Thursday , did I mention it to you on the phone ? |
| 22 | Did I expect it to be like this ? |
| 23 | Neither did I follow him to Adelaide , Ashley thought belatedly . |
| 24 | ‘ I said I said it to Arnie we had two choices : that file on the committee table or Crocus had never happened and surely was n't happening now . |
| 25 | I said I wished mine to be destroyed , but asked if I might keep some of hers of a literary interest . |
| 26 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 27 | The constable might not have minded the instant promotion but I doubt if the commissioner would have been too happy had I relegated him to the ranks ! ) |