Example sentences of "[to-vb] me [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 2 | Enough I hope to enable me to complete the windows . |
| 3 | All the way back I hoped they would still have the odd one to enable me to complete the suit and happily luck was with me . |
| 4 | If the Minister holds meetings on the poultry industry , why does not his hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border ( Mr. Maclean ) , the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , agree to meet me to discuss the case of my constituent Mr. Johnston , a duck producer from Sharnidubs , who has been shabbily treated by the Ministry ? |
| 5 | What you witnessed that night was Melanie trying to persuade me to perform the operation for her — or , failing that , to get someone else to do it as a favour . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've come to persuade me to accept the pension , have n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | Social Services did n't know where to send me to have the baby . |
| 8 | To teach me to perceive the shades of beauty and the shades of meaning … . |
| 9 | I did not often take part in the passeggiata because soon after school ended I had to go home on the tram , but sometimes a schoolfriend of mine called Wilma used to invite me to stay the night if there was a lot of homework to be done . |
| 10 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 11 | And so I must ask you again to allow me to inspect the morning 's mails . ’ |
| 12 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |
| 13 | There he was , trying to blackmail me to leave the company or face a false charge of fraud , and I knew so much about his underhand behaviour . |
| 14 | I had never heard of river engineers until one morning a very harassed engineer rang to ask me to persuade the lady in question not to tie herself to the ancient pollard which he intended to fell . |
| 15 | That will be sufficient to oblige me to choose the inclination which I felt increasing pari passu with intensifying awareness , after which choice there will be no need to go on agonizing over his plight , which might even impair my efficiency as a helper . |
| 16 | He seems to want me to direct the rehearsals with him . |