Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Excuse me , Hsiao Chi , but my master asked me to see to your every wish . ’ |
| 2 | They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit . |
| 3 | ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’ |
| 4 | We want you to see for yourself the subtlety and awareness that can be wrought from the earth , to give style and grace to your everyday living . |
| 5 | These rhetorical features seem , however , to suffer from being at odds with the rest of the passage , as if James wants us to catch in them a certain false emotionalism in the tone of the speaker . |
| 6 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 7 | Before your children come to Heriot 's we would like you to discuss with them the aims of this School and the values on which we lay emphasis . |
| 8 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 9 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 10 | I know members will be sorry to hear that Mr Robert and Mr Ken are both unwell and will wish me to convey to them the council 's best wishes for a speedy recovery . |
| 11 | So appraisal has , or should have nothing to do with what the tabloid press likes to call ‘ weeding out ’ . |
| 12 | Insecurity must have something to do with it an insecurity about the musical self-sufficiency of absolute melody , so foreign to our modern western way of musical thinking , compounded by the performer 's fear of standing before an audience with no instrument and no accompaniment to hide behind or use as a prop … |
| 13 | The more he required her to talk about herself the more he longed for her to ask him about himself . |
| 14 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 15 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 16 | I 'll leave you to talk to him a minute . |
| 17 | As they approach the valley overlooked by the Mountain of God , he asks her to accept from him the gift of a necklace . |
| 18 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 19 | Permit me to deliver to you the infamous smuggler Cut-throat Jake , his vile accomplices in crime , and the contraband spirit which , with our own eyes , we saw them bring on shore ! |
| 20 | He is indeed given us to actualise in us the character of Christ : but that process will not be complete until we see him as he is , either at death or the Parousia . |
| 21 | Masculine , feminine and neuter are labels for formal properties and have nothing to do with what a word actually means . |