Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 2 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 3 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 4 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 5 | He raised with me certain personal problems that he was facing and I asked him to come to my regular constituency surgery to discuss matters in more detail . |
| 6 | No , I called him up in the week , in the holiday and I asked him to come to Shelley 's and he said call me back . |
| 7 | She did not fire when I asked her to go with the winner and faded right out in the last furlong , ’ said disappointed rider Frankie Dettori . |
| 8 | I asked her to go to bed and I decided to search for the monster . |
| 9 | I asked her to look under the sinker plate , to see whether all the brushes and plastic gear were spinning freely . |
| 10 | In the evening I asked her to read to me , and was surprised how sleepy she seemed . |
| 11 | She was delighted when I asked her to work for me , ’ Roman said , his voice warm with sympathy . |
| 12 | This was the reason I asked you to return to the house of your childhood : because the places we have loved — or hated — as children remain in the mind as almost a structuring force . |
| 13 | I asked you to come to London with me , did n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | A few months ago I asked you to write to the magazine with your queries about Silver machines , and suggestions for the subjects you 'd like me to write about . |
| 15 | Only three boys understood and I got them to explain in Arabic to the rest . |
| 16 | I got him to sit as a model . |
| 17 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 18 | I expected you to dissolve into tears at the thought of your lover with another woman . ’ |
| 19 | I expected you to look at them . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I remember , but that did n't mean I expected you to freeze to death . ’ |
| 21 | I expected you to come after me , I prayed you would so that I would know for sure that you really wanted me , but you did n't . |
| 22 | ‘ I command you to stay with me forever ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 24 | I expect her to preside over the abolition of wages councils and to be strong on industrial training . |
| 25 | I expect her to shout at me , having heard an alternative story from Teddy . |
| 26 | It 's what I expect for you to be able to work , really hard , get your homework done , work hard in your exams , I expect you to go to college . |
| 27 | Mind you erm , I mean that 's not , it 's normal , I expect you to put between six , six ounces and eight ounces . |
| 28 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 29 | I expect you to work on the assignments you owe me at home ! |
| 30 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |