Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made them want to , of course . |
| 2 | Their training and the pressure to conform to state rules and regulations have over the years made them appear to their pupils , and many parents , as agents of the regime . |
| 3 | Their revolutionary strategies and organizations reflected not their leadership of popular protest but a near-total isolation which led them to resort to conspiracy and manipulation . |
| 4 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 5 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 6 | She asked me to apologize to you , should I see you , for not having answered your last letter . |
| 7 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 8 | ‘ Excuse me , Hsiao Chi , but my master asked me to see to your every wish . ’ |
| 9 | They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit . |
| 10 | ‘ When the record company first asked me to talk to people , I just did . |
| 11 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 12 | The idea of a one-woman tribute was conceived five years ago , when larger-than-life director Bryan Izzard asked me to contribute to a Channel Four programme on the monologue called The Eye Of The Little Yellow Dog , starring , amongst others , the late Leonard Rossiter , Cilla Black , Alec McCowen , Diane Langton , Anita Harris and Ronald Lacey . |
| 13 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 14 | Caduta asked me to come to an address in Little Italy at two o'clock that afternoon . |
| 15 | It simply asked me to come to his office tomorrow afternoon at half-past two . ’ |
| 16 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 17 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
| 18 | But you do n't get that choice you do n't er and to me I , I hate going because the , you , you got everyone seems to be , it 's , it 's as bad as a road really with the trolleys erm and I badly miss this over-the-counter service but er |
| 19 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 20 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 21 | ‘ They never made me go to auditions — it was just something that came up . |
| 22 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 23 | Mama made me go to school , but I crept back home just before noon . |
| 24 | More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria . |
| 25 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 26 | ‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’ |
| 27 | On the Sunday following the manor fire , as Tom , Seb , Dolly and Carrie left Swinbrook chapel after the morning service , Christian asked them to come to the farmhouse . |
| 28 | ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city . |
| 29 | What made I wanted to be a policeman ? |
| 30 | And when I got I says to here , I 'm sick of having to out all them cigarettes . |