Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting down his glass and removing hers , he gripped her shoulders and propelled her to stand in front of the mirror . |
| 2 | attempts to harness the adaptability of labour power by giving workers leeway and encouraging them to adapt to changing situations in a manner beneficial to the firm . |
| 3 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 4 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 5 | Whilst Zborowski was still in the south of France Modigliani met Madame Zborowska in the street and asked her to pose for him . |
| 6 | The following afternoon Heather called for Shirley , who was in her Six and who lived two doors away from her , and asked her to go with her to Olinton Farm to get some butter . |
| 7 | ‘ After a few weeks he told her he was going home , and asked her to go with him . |
| 8 | He was away that weekend hang-glinding , and asked her to go with him . |
| 9 | She rang Sylvia in New York , and asked her to come to Washington . |
| 10 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ a friend came round and asked me to go with her … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 14 | ‘ Flick wrote last week and asked me to stay with them at Gerrards Cross . |
| 15 | She promised Louis all the money she had earned , and asked him to go to his cousin who would contact the SOE reseau . |
| 16 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 17 | After consultation with the ward staff of the hospital where he was , and with the speech therapist , I drew a small house , his , and a large building , an old peoples ' home , and asked him to point to where he wanted to go . |
| 18 | We gave the aircraft keys to our new friend , Ronnie Bala , from the Flobamor Hotel and asked him to watch over it . |
| 19 | A partner in her firm of solicitors knew Lord Aldington , who was then the chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , which handled the case ; and asked him to look at it . |
| 20 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 21 | Before we left Strelsau , I saw the Marshal and asked him to stay near Flavia , to take care of her and to keep her safe from Duke Michael . |
| 22 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 23 | When the King withdrew , Jeffreys , the Lord Chancellor , told the bishops that they would be prosecuted in the King 's Bench and asked them to enter into recognisances to appear in court . |
| 24 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 25 | Back in August we joined forces with Cossack and asked you to look at your fella and tell us if the man of your dreams had turned into the man of your nightmares ! |
| 26 | He began to talk of death , and asked us to pray with him . |
| 27 | He briefed us , and asked us to keep to the paths of the ‘ visitors ’ trail' . |
| 28 | A particularistic knowledge of what is ‘ normal ’ for this watercourse , this discharge , in this weather , at this time of the year shapes an officer 's expectations and equips him to attend to anything ‘ abnormal ’ . |
| 29 | The builder should be summoned to scrutinize the small growth on the pantry 's outer wall , and her husband had informed her that the bank had made another balls-up and requested her to deal with it . |
| 30 | At one time , he even dominated Mot , the surly god of death , and banished him to exile in the desert . |