Example sentences of "ask [pron] to do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 2 | At the end of the placement , a ward sister signed my assessment form and then asked me to do the same . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's no use playing two wingers like Morrissey and Nevin and asking them to do the defensive bit for you . |
| 4 | But I am so fond of the people in A Wreath of Roses and have so lately re-read it , that I am perhaps tiresomely asking you to do the same thing again . |
| 5 | So I ask them to do the right thing and put a 50 mph speed restriction , together with the CANT of the track and provided the doors are properly shut which is the responsibility of the staff not the passengers , they will have no further trouble . |
| 6 | Explaining that she was due to meet her INLA boss Dominic ‘ Mad Dog ’ McGlinchey in the Republic that November day , she told detectives : ‘ You may find this hard to believe and think I 'm hard and callous but if Dominic had asked me to do the same again , I would have done it . ’ |