Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accept that no-one forced you to believe it . |
| 2 | At least be flattered that I chose you to tell the truth to . ’ |
| 3 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 4 | Then his wife was frightened , and she said , " It is only a tale that I told you to ease your heart . |
| 5 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
| 6 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 7 | I do n't know that I meant you to guess anything , ’ he said grudgingly . |
| 8 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |
| 9 | An example I can cite is that I asked her to research and write up ( unsupervised ) an application to the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation for the microfilming of our 100,000 items in the Archive Collection . |
| 10 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 12 | ‘ You may remember that I begged you to make love to me the first time , Penry Vaughan ! |
| 13 | She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside . |
| 14 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
| 15 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ‘ If I said to you , ’ replies Anya wearily , ‘ that I wanted you to stop what you were doing , stop everything , and drive miles and miles , into the back of beyond , just to be with me , you 'd have told me to piss off . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I told you in my letter last week that I wanted you to arrange for me to meet him . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I said to you earlier — I did , did n't I — sometimes I forget what I 've said — that I wanted you to look after her . ’ |
| 19 | This is a typical conspiracy theory , which adduces the fact that something did happen as evidence that someone meant it to happen . |
| 20 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 21 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 22 | It was nicely presented , moreover , and since I had n't taken any eating irons with me I am pleased to report that nobody asked me to cup my hands together to take my Cottage Pie a la Toulon ? |
| 23 | Two or three days after Miss Bedwelty 's visit the team found that nobody pressed them to practise anything , nothing was said about another riding lesson and life was refreshingly peaceful . |
| 24 | ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ? |
| 25 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 26 | Sheldon had become much attached to her during his time at the Lock Hospital and it is said that she asked him to embalm her body after her death , which he did . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 28 | He banged his cup down on its saucer , so hard that she expected it to shatter . |
| 29 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 30 | Stephanie spoke also , for her almost sharply , to Marcus and told him that the visit would happen and that she trusted him to help with it , to behave well . |