Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 2 | He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She asked me to inquire about the case . |
| 4 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 6 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
| 7 | She asked me to stand by the gate while she spoke to him . " |
| 8 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 9 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 10 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 11 | He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation … |
| 12 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 13 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 14 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 15 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 16 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 17 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 18 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 19 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 20 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 21 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 22 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 23 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 24 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 25 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 26 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 27 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 28 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 30 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |