Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push .
2 ‘ Go to meet him with Maggie and let her charm him . ’
3 When early in 1952 he held an exhibition of his work at the Archer Gallery in Notting Hill , he rang up Minton and invited him to see it .
4 The tacit threat of having their operating licences removed was required before they agreed to cooperate with GCCS and let it see their messages each day .
5 Seeing a youth of about 17 about to cycle away , Harry whispered that he was RAF and did he know anyone who could help .
6 A few hours later famed attorney to the stars Jerry Geisler was called in to defend Mitchum and warned him to say nothing more .
7 Said delighted Northern coach Peter Fox : ‘ When you come to Knowsley Road and win you know you are championship material — but I was surprised at the number of points we scored . ’
8 Terry and Stephen attended Victor 's Dancing Academy in Prescot Road and urged him to try it , but he put them off .
9 is it , how many miles is it that I fly to Turin and Zurich and do you want me to try and add that up and then it was into the cars I thought oh this is an easier question to answer , I 'll stick with the cars cos I know that I do twenty two thousand .
10 These letter flattered Brutus and begged him to do something about Rome .
11 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 .
12 Poppa says I can go to London or Paris and have them make my trousseau if I want . ’
13 They must 've got the idea from that , called Dave Tanner and got him to set you up …
14 Perhaps one day some brave soul will make a long legal journey to the House of Lords and persuade them to change their minds .
15 His round had been long and arduous , and he was thinking how pleasant it would be to see and tease McAllister and ask her to serve them all some home-made lemonade .
16 That Major still backs Mellor and believes he did nothing untoward arouses suspicions that he does n't know the difference between right and wrong .
17 Get through to Müller and tell him to contact me there .
18 When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money .
19 I 've passed on to him the invitation to the training course on Saturday 5th September and asked him to let you know if he is able to attend .
20 The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture — figures , groups and relief work — from Greece and Etruria and used it to decorate their buildings and homes .
21 I am addressing this meeting , not because I am an expert in the field of training European teachers to teach their mother tongue , but because the Language Teaching Centre ( LTC ) of the University of York is running a project to bring over qualified language teachers from Germany and France and retrain them to teach their mother tongue as a foreign language in British schools .
22 Mr Johns spoke to McCabe and stopped him reporting it ,
23 The lad caught Drifter and brought him to join us .
24 Who is Ebeneezer Goode and do you think he understands that the song concerns him ?
25 As a result the Trades Union Congress Disputes Committee required APEX to dismiss Cheall and advise him to rejoin his former union .
26 Well phone , if it comes to it phone Mark at Norwich and ask him to deliver one .
27 By the end of the Seventies ‘ Laura Ashley ’ had sufficiently entered the American consciousness that when a small toy factory in Kentucky was threatened with closure , the Governor , John Y. Brown Jr. , immediately contacted Laura Ashley and suggested they took it over .
28 Victorious in war , and victorious also against the wiles of amorous Atene , Leo is taken to the ruler , who reveals herself to him as Ayesha and challenges him to view her in her hideous age .
29 I catch a bit of radio while I 'm changing cassettes just north of Perth and hear something called I 'll Sleep When I 'm Dead by Bon Jovi which is n't a patch on Uncle Warren 's song of the same name and makes me more than reasonably annoyed .
30 Manager and mentor Don Revie lost patience with Bremner and demanded he keep his temper in check .
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