Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first morning we met you asked me to show you the way to the matriculation class , putting a very strong stress on the first syllable . |
| 2 | Their triple-engined ski boat had blocked the exit to the road and when people asked them to move it the BMW people started arguing . |
| 3 | I got them to give me the number for the cleaners ' mess-room and asked there . |
| 4 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 5 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 6 | I want you to show her the ropes . |
| 7 | ‘ We now want him to give us the name of his accomplice . ’ |
| 8 | I want her to give you the name of the man responsible . ’ |
| 9 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 10 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 11 | I expect he sent you the letter . |
| 12 | When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace . |
| 13 | He 's instructed me to give you the ride on Shine On at York next week . |
| 14 | I pointed out that his voice had certainly ceased to be soprano , but he pestered me to teach him the solo for the next eisteddfod . |
| 15 | Come , let me show you the surgery . |
| 16 | Produce evidence to support statements — ‘ Let me show you the improvement in Fred 's writing , maths , art etc . ’ |
| 17 | But , come , let me show you the warehouse you asked about . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Let me show you the house and where we 're going to be working . |
| 19 | ‘ Let me tell you the story . |
| 20 | Let me tell you the word there spreading is that you have vowed to kill all everybody . |
| 21 | Let me tell you the rules of the game . |
| 22 | Let me tell you the sort of guys I 've been dealing with for years . ’ |
| 23 | Then let me assure you the subject of Doreen is also closed . ’ |
| 24 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 25 | But let me give you the peak of my experience as a cancer patient . |
| 26 | Let me ask you the question first ! |
| 27 | ‘ Let me read you the copy : ‘ A woman died last night during the interval at the Theatre Royal . ’ |
| 28 | For example , when Dostoevsky abandons the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter but retains the brief exchange in which Shatov urges Stavrogin to go to Bishop Tikhon , and Stavrogin replies ‘ Thank you , I will ’ , let nobody persuade us the novelist has made a mistake . |
| 29 | So what I would give you give you the appearance |
| 30 | Yes , I 'll come on that romantic stroll with you and watch the sunset as we did in Seville and I 'll remind you of it , just as you intend to remind me of it , and I 'll go with you all of the cruel way , Fernando , and when it 's all over I hope it gives you the satisfaction you crave . ’ |