Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 2 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 3 | When Jennie came in and asked to see what we were doing , we were giggling so much , she would say , ‘ What are yer giggling at , yer little monkeys ? ’ |
| 4 | Over and over she asked the questions and became so demented by them that , though she trembled with indignation , she once more went into the Casa Guidi and , controlling herself as best she could , asked to see her old mistress . |
| 5 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 6 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 7 | I asked to see him , but they said no . ’ |
| 8 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 9 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 10 | Before I left Ruritania , Princess Flavia asked to see me again , and Fritz took me to her . |
| 11 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 12 | Nobody asked to see their passports and they were airborne half an hour later , on their way to Keflavik on the western side of Iceland , where they landed seven hours later . |
| 13 | He then asked to see my legs . |
| 14 | Anyway , the marshal asked to see you as soon as you recovered . |
| 15 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 16 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 17 | She hesitated a moment and then said , " Matthew asked to see you as soon as you arrived . |
| 18 | I asked to see his identification . |
| 19 | He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented . |
| 20 | ‘ Asked to see his driving licence . ’ |
| 21 | Shadows leapt and danced away from the light as he fought to steady himself . |
| 22 | On the same day the Soviet Union and Hungary agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency from 1991 onwards , replacing previous barter arrangements . |
| 23 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 24 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 25 | The move comes after nearly one in four of BR 's routes failed to hit their performance targets under John Major 's new Citizen 's Charter . |
| 26 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 27 | I got to whisk it , whisk it |
| 28 | It never failed to anger him — the clearly apparent greater affluence of hospital administrators as compared to his own lack of money . |
| 29 | The chartbustin' all-girl band planned to invest their pop earnings in a beauty salon . |
| 30 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |