Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | supervision out which is what I asked him to do . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Fairfax only did what I asked him to do , ’ put in Charlotte . |
| 3 | I 'd be interested to know whether Neil did that list of things I asked him to do . |
| 4 | ‘ Did n't you understand what I asked you to do ? ’ |
| 5 | — ( in answer to How are you getting on with those jobs I asked you to do ? ) |
| 6 | Did you clean that cupboard out I asked you to do ? |
| 7 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 8 | The artist who did my album cover used an airbrush and I got him to do three guitars for me . |
| 9 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 10 | It is the last thing I expected him to do . |
| 11 | I told them to do their own dirty work . |
| 12 | The boys could n't believe me but they had to do what I told them to do … . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I told you to do the potatoes ? |
| 14 | Yeah boy , I told you to do your homework |
| 15 | I 've always thought of myself as a sensible person , yet I allowed myself to do that . |
| 16 | He proposes the following contexts to illustrate the contrast between the way let represents permission and the manner in which allow evokes it : ( 216a ) I allowed him to do it , but he did n't do it . |
| 17 | When I challenged him to do so he was right in fourteen cases out of the sixteen . |
| 18 | I paced around smoking while I decided what to do . |
| 19 | While doing so , I meditated what to do . |
| 20 | It is no good the person who gave the order later complaining ‘ But I meant you to do so-and-so ’ . |
| 21 | I thanked him and told him to tell my mother not to worry , I knew what to do . |
| 22 | Do n't worry folks , I knew what to do — smear some butter around the head and neck . |
| 23 | From experience , I knew what to do . |
| 24 | I knew what to do , incorporate her into the mass grave of my fantasy world ; there her real charms would soon decay and get jumbled up with my rather more rotten visions . |
| 25 | Well , that was a relief , and anyway I knew what to do next . |
| 26 | But at least I knew what to do when the victims were mine . |
| 27 | The former nurse said : ‘ It was probably just as well I knew what to do from my nursing days . ’ |
| 28 | I have just been on an inter-personal skills workshop so I knew what to do . |
| 29 | I knew what to do with that one you see ? |
| 30 | I knew what to do with that one . |