Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 2 | He made them put it in the garden shed . ’ |
| 3 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 4 | Now why , what made them take it to the stage |
| 5 | Belief made them see it . |
| 6 | ‘ I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands and when I declined , he just sat there and could n't believe it . |
| 7 | I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands . |
| 8 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 9 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 10 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He just asked me to do it , and I felt like playing live again to keep my chops up . |
| 12 | He asked me to do it , as I was ‘ good at maths ’ ! |
| 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 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 15 | None of the teachers in the school asked me to do it . |
| 16 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 17 | You asked me to take it … |
| 18 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 19 | Well we 're just watching Coronation Street she asked me to turn it off . |
| 20 | He telephoned me at three o'clock in the morning , and asked me to confirm it . |
| 21 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 22 | If you want to know what that actually means see Dr but he asked me to read it out . |
| 23 | Speaking of young men , erm I have a letter here from Mr John who is our local M P , who is not able to be with us today , but erm he in fact would not of , I think , been born at that stage , but erm he did write to me a little letter I 've got this morning from the House of Commons in London and he asked me to read it out . |
| 24 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 25 | And er you know she asked me to cut it for her so I cut it for her . |
| 26 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 27 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 28 | Mr Hellyer asked me to hide it for him . |
| 29 | Furthermore , he never asked me to write it in his place . |
| 30 | ‘ The old gentleman asked me to bring it , ’ he said . |