Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 3 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 4 | I asked to see him , but they said no . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Before I left Ruritania , Princess Flavia asked to see me again , and Fritz took me to her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyway , the marshal asked to see you as soon as you recovered . |
| 10 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 11 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 12 | She hesitated a moment and then said , " Matthew asked to see you as soon as you arrived . |
| 13 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 14 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I got to whisk it , whisk it |
| 17 | It never failed to anger him — the clearly apparent greater affluence of hospital administrators as compared to his own lack of money . |
| 18 | A security guard at a British Gas depot in Wakefield , West Yorkshire , was kidnapped by a gunman and made to drive him about 40 miles , it was disclosed . |
| 19 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , when I got to interview him he fell asleep within five minutes . |
| 21 | The two other boys were sitting neatly on a sofa in the distance but they failed to acknowledge them . |
| 22 | And of course when it got heated it used to blow and it used to blow all the burning debris all over . |
| 23 | The explosive sound he made stilled her . |
| 24 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 25 | By setting this film against a backdrop of the London Underground , Christine Halsall and Steven Sprung made us feel inextricably woven into this madness . |
| 26 | Although Robert used his body more than words to communicate , he failed to recognize June 's bodily communications when her words failed to penetrate him . |
| 27 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 28 | The G M B and other unions , but principally the G M B cos that 's one I 'm concerned about , needs to pressurize councillors and officers because councillors and officers have been bombarded with almost as much legislation as the trade unions have had from the Tory government and most of them actually just want an easy time , so you 've got to hassle them , you got to harass them what they do . |
| 29 | She did not think it good , it was the first time she had played for weeks and the sounds she made disquieted her , but perhaps it was good enough for busking . |
| 30 | The habit of association among hand-loom weavers could last as long as the class of workmen itself , or at least until it became too unstable and diluted to preserve it . |