Example sentences of "asked them [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 2 | We also asked them to name the party they thought best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , and for the unemployed . |
| 3 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 4 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 5 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 6 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 7 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 8 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 9 | While Jack and Kathleen dealt with the patient , Amy rang the switchboard and asked them to pass the message on to Dr Marumba . |
| 10 | At the start we asked them to approach the Union of Post Office Workers ( UPW ) to cut off the mail to Grunwick but they would n't do that either . |
| 11 | Every time the pollsters asked them to list the issues that most concerned them , the Scots obstinately placed those matters that fail to excite emissaries from the London media at the top — unemployment , the NHS , education — just as in comparable parts of the UK . |
| 12 | The chosen redesigners were Information Design unit of Newport Pagnell , UK ; and we asked them to make The Lancet easier to read by attention to the typography , layout , and production techniques . |