Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 2 | He said he was sorry and asked her not to contact the emergency services . |
| 3 | He thought he should acquire a sober ‘ Anthony Eden ’ black Homburg hat and asked me where to buy one . |
| 4 | So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more . |
| 5 | Sometimes he talked to it , and asked it not to kill him . |
| 6 | ‘ He was n't the type to moan and asked us not to complain until he got out . |
| 7 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 8 | It smelt and made it hard to breath . |
| 9 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 10 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 11 | Although the recession was said to be the major cause , blame was also aimed at tycoon Gerald Ratner , whose father founded the firm and built it up to become Britain 's biggest jewellery chain . |
| 12 | Saddam Hussein on Jan. 13 rejected a message from President Hafez al-Assad of Syria , and invited him instead to change sides and " join the ranks of the believers " in the great battle with the infidels . |
| 13 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 14 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 15 | John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons . |
| 16 | I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches . |
| 17 | He took her by both hands , and drew her up to stand breast to breast with him . |
| 18 | Then she held the light still and drew me down to kneel beside her . |
| 19 | The snow struck and drove him back to shelter . |
| 20 | I went to the doctor on the Saturday and he said it was gastroenteritis and prescribed tablets for me for it and told me just to keep up my fluids so I did n't get dehydrated . |
| 21 | If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it . |
| 22 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 23 | He knew somehow that I was dealing with this section and gave me the serial number of a wagon and told me not to go anywhere near it . |
| 24 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 25 | She sent me to fetch two cups , and told me then to go to my own tea . |
| 26 | The boss nurse gave her two minutes and told her not to talk . |
| 27 | Bejan greeted the 75 audience members and told them not to hold back — and they did n't , loudly voicing their preferences . |
| 28 | Her lip trembled briefly as Tony hugged her and Maureen kissed her again before they left , but she quickly recovered and told them unsmilingly to give her love to her father and the family . |
| 29 | By the time he had sorted everybody out and told them how to get to Bridlington it was too late for me to use my free pass and I had to pay half fare . |
| 30 | A lot of Scots came this way via the Northern Line from King 's Cross and they were giving their Scottish concert in the concourse when a heavy metal band arrived and told them roughly to move . |