Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] i [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a few months later the Prince asked me to marry him . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it rather spiteful but the Prince ordered me to burn them . |
| 3 | The CO sent me to find you . ’ |
| 4 | The General wants me to send him to New York tonight . ’ |
| 5 | Secondly , such small , delicate tables are difficult to visualise in terms of proportion , and so the prototype enabled me to get it right again , before touching the precious ebony . |
| 6 | So the Commissioner asked me to see him . |
| 7 | ‘ The head asked me to let her know when you arrived . |
| 8 | This friend 's possession was temporary as the entity left me to enter her . |
| 9 | ‘ The hospital asked me to let them know as soon as you were on your way . |
| 10 | and the doctor advised me to take him back to Rhodesia |
| 11 | ‘ I picked up my teeth from the pitch and wanted to play on , but a dental consultant from the crowd advised me to have them put back as soon as possible ’ — JAMES CHANDLER ( Bedford wing ) after the Pilkington Cup home defeat by Harlequins when he was alleged to have been punched by an England flanker . |
| 12 | None of the teachers in the school asked me to do it . |
| 13 | He made a commitment , between himself and God , — ( ‘ No man asked me to do it ’ ) — to take up his father 's goal , ‘ a hate-free , fear-free , greed-free Africa , peopled by free men and women . ’ |
| 14 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 15 | He sent me a memorandum directing me to inform him in future before I write to any newspaper periodical on matters appertaining to the force . |
| 16 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |