Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were having trouble with the close-up , until DiCillo finally asked Brad to give him ‘ a deer caught in a car 's headlights ’ . |
| 2 | Peter was a pianist , had a job as a pianist , and always seemed to have money , which made Cecilia see him as a potentially good husband . |
| 3 | You know there was a brother of the Order who so contrived her departure and asked Aldhelm to help him . |
| 4 | He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante . |
| 5 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 6 | Once home , Brian got a job as a market gardener and asked Jean to marry him . |
| 7 | and got Johnny to finish it . |
| 8 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 9 | That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house . |
| 10 | Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended . |
| 11 | I suppose it was this that made Richard think I could not manage Flora 's job . |
| 12 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 13 | I even got Ken to try it on us . |
| 14 | In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig . |
| 15 | The Clothes Show Magazine team invited Alison to show us some of her favourite outfits , as well as a selection of clothes that Betty wears . |
| 16 | It had stopped raining , and she could easily have walked ; but she let Ben drive her , slowly , talking about Jake all the way . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't believe all this , ’ Ruth breathed as she let Fernando lead her to a table by the lakeside . |
| 18 | Tug found it repulsive , but he had not the energy to resist and he let Doyle lead him upstairs as a father leads a child . |
| 19 | It was bright , with house-plants , posters of pop stars and cartoons and in one corner there even appeared to be a hamster or a gerbil in a cage , but as Rachel looked around she caught David watching her carefully . |
| 20 | I invited Reinhard to join me in some parallel experiments in chicks ; to our delight , 2-Dgal , injected either just before or up to a couple of hours after training , blocked fucose incorporation into the chick brain glycoproteins and produced amnesia in animals tested twenty-four hours later . |
| 21 | Making the best of the situation , Arden-Clarke invited Nkrumah to meet him and submit his list of names for the majority of the Executive Council who would now become Ministers . |
| 22 | He let Sarazen know he could straighten out his game for him ‘ before the bell rings ’ , caddies ' parlance for before the tournament-proper starts . |
| 23 | I 've no learning , no education ; I dare n't tell my husband , I pretended Gregorio told me he was going away , but it 's not true . ’ |
| 24 | After they had eaten , her mother let Caro make them both a cup of tea . |
| 25 | Ramsey invited his Master to lunch and invited Knox to meet him . |
| 26 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 27 | as if that was not shocking enough , we later on found Derek giving us a learned address on the provenance and composition of La Bohème . |
| 28 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 29 | He explained that they had made plans for the evening and politely invited Modigliani to join them . |
| 30 | She let Ferdinando teach her how to judge an aubergine ripe and a chicken fresh and then she copied those older women she had seen for the rest . |