Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 2 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 3 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 6 | Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed . |
| 7 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 8 | After a short chat he invited me to join him at a ‘ small Chinese gathering ’ in the hall usually used for Tong meetings on River Street West . |
| 9 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 10 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 11 | ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’ |
| 12 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 13 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 14 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 15 | On the evening before his body was found she had organised a baby-sitter to look after their two children and invited him to accompany her to a function at Dowman 's British Steel Club , but he had refused to go and instead went out alone . |
| 16 | During the summer of 1977 she watched him play polo at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor and when , in February 1978 , he invited her to join him on a skiing party in Klosters , Switzerland there was much speculation that she might be the future queen of England . |
| 17 | She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week . |
| 18 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |
| 19 | Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others . |
| 20 | The good lady thought that he was shy , and constantly twitted him to bring him into the talk ; Paul hoped that she would get over it as the days passed , and this proved to be the case . |
| 21 | Others , however , felt a similar shudder at the thought of telling and discussing the political jokes about contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and advised me to confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 22 | You told me to put it in the safe place . |
| 23 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 24 | ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls . |
| 25 | When she returned from the shops , Mum told me to accompany her to the Captain 's to ask if we could have the Mission Hall for the wedding . |
| 26 | Yo , your mum told you to do it in the nude ? |
| 27 | ‘ I thought my secretary told you to meet me at the house in Edinburgh ? |
| 28 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 29 | I told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house . |
| 30 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |