Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leafing through them , I could n't see any obvious lies ; he had n't taught me to say anything obscene instead of ‘ Excuse me ’ or ‘ Can you direct me to the railway station , please ? ’ , though I 'd have thought the temptation would have been all but irresistible . |
| 2 | Well do you want me to pick one up while you still go into |
| 3 | Do you want me to say anything ? |
| 4 | Well and do you want me to do one for this year ? |
| 5 | ‘ Do you want me to do anything ? ’ |
| 6 | Do you want me to do anything for you ? |
| 7 | Do you want me to do anything else while I 'm up up and about ? |
| 8 | Do you want me telling everyone how my own dad behaved ? |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't want me to know anything about you , so why should you want to know anything about me ? ’ |
| 10 | " Do you want me to get someone ? " |
| 11 | So when I was actually pregnant , although it would be fairer on me and the baby and everybody concerned if I did have an abortion , he made me know that he did n't really want me to have one . |
| 12 | Do you want me to send someone to look at the plough ? ’ |
| 13 | But I 'll I 'll have to find out from them , it may be that they do n't want me to send anybody else to it because I made the initial contact with them . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you want me to make something ? ’ |
| 15 | They expected everyone to do something , and then expected to tell them how it could have been done better . |
| 16 | Clare Short , Labour MP for Ladywood , who raised the issue in the Commons in January , said : ‘ I think the West Midlands Police were trying to brush the matter under the carpet and it was only pressure from MPs and the media that made them do anything . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And how can you make me do something that I have no power to do ? ’ |
| 18 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 19 | He did n't make me do anything I did n't want to . |
| 20 | You ca n't make me do anything against my will ! ’ |
| 21 | The sight that met them brought everything back with a rush . |
| 22 | I do n't think , ’ he said , ‘ they trust me to do nothing . ’ |
| 23 | Some courtiers were intelligent , some had the desire to educate themselves , but in the whole these people had little interest in politics , beyond a vapid enthusiasm for the status quo which treated them so well , and an unthinking conservatism , which led them to dismiss anyone with views to the left of their own as " Communists " . |
| 24 | His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies . |
| 25 | Their husbands do n't want them to do anything which is not passive , and in the end women end up believing the same . |
| 26 | She did n't want them to do anything then . |
| 27 | There I do n't want them to know anything . |
| 28 | Paul Reichmann asked me to delay everything for two months and I agreed . |
| 29 | ‘ Doctor Volkov asked me to collect something from her office . |
| 30 | A New Zealander , Wilkins , who had joined the section halfway through basic training from Castelnaudary , asked me to write one for him . |