Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first morning we met you asked me to show you the way to the matriculation class , putting a very strong stress on the first syllable . |
| 2 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 3 | Their triple-engined ski boat had blocked the exit to the road and when people asked them to move it the BMW people started arguing . |
| 4 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 5 | I got them to give me the number for the cleaners ' mess-room and asked there . |
| 6 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 7 | England found nobody to do what the Pakistan quickies — Wasim Akram in particular — had done to them . |
| 8 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
| 9 | I want you to show her the ropes . |
| 10 | Now I want you to tell me the important part — why the hell are you so desperate that you 'll go to this extent in order to get your hands on the bequest ? |
| 11 | ‘ We want him to see what the reality is , compared with the tabloid myth , ’ said a party organiser . |
| 12 | ‘ We now want him to give us the name of his accomplice . ’ |
| 13 | I want her to give you the name of the man responsible . ’ |
| 14 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 15 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 16 | He 's instructed me to give you the ride on Shine On at York next week . |
| 17 | I pointed out that his voice had certainly ceased to be soprano , but he pestered me to teach him the solo for the next eisteddfod . |
| 18 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 19 | They believed in the myth and Diana could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth . |
| 20 | He would do anything to save her the slightest inconvenience . |
| 21 | ‘ And I 've no intention of allowing you to give me the slip tonight . |
| 22 | ‘ If you would like me to forgive you the other half of your great debt , then fire the kiln tomorrow morning , well before dawn . |
| 23 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 24 | Kaitlin has run a lot of times over the course and the fact that the Michael Grassick stable is in form leads me to make him the choice in the Newcastle Maiden Hurdle . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I 'd like you to give me the answer to a question . ’ |
| 26 | " I 'd like you to give me the wedding-dress you got from the children . " |
| 27 | Oh I like if I 'd have known you were going I 'd have got you to get me the nut ones . |
| 28 | I read it in one twenty-minute sitting , howled like a baby for ten more minutes , then phoned the producer and practically begged her to give me the job . |
| 29 | Get someone to read it to you once only , then get them to ask you the questions which follow . |
| 30 | I 'll have to er give her a ring to and tell them to send me the advert . |