Example sentences of "[verb] i [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 | He 's instructed me to give you the ride on Shine On at York next week . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If you would like me to forgive you the other half of your great debt , then fire the kiln tomorrow morning , well before dawn . |
| 7 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 10 | Three of them stay upstairs with Crilly , while the other three ask me to show them the bedroom . |
| 11 | Eventually he persuaded me to give him the name and address of my parents . |
| 12 | Erm it would be extremely difficult t for them not to occupy our thoughts , I 'm not sure whether your question is is inviting me to consider what the European Community should be doing in the context of Bosnia . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you allow me to show you the way ? ’ |
| 15 | He took out two large plastic orange cones — the sort you get on motorway hold-ups — and gave them to me , telling me to put them the other side of the bend to slow the traffic coming down . |
| 16 | He had disappeared entirely , leaving me to wonder what the hell he was playing at . |
| 17 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |