Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [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 I got I told you the about a different bana .
7 Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election .
8 As the shock receded , Charles found himself wondering what the disagreement had really been about .
9 England found nobody to do what the Pakistan quickies — Wasim Akram in particular — had done to them .
10 She had spent a sleepless night agonising over what had happened between herself and David and she found herself dreading what the atmosphere would be like between them .
11 It had been a slip on Doreen 's part , Lucy recalled as she found herself wondering what the situation had been with Clive .
12 The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries .
13 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 .
14 When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace .
15 The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Herein lay a paradox : the PSBC was ‘ patronage [ good ] , that is , supporting projects of merit and quality ’ , whereas ‘ paternalism ’ [ bad ] referred to institutions , such as the BBC , which believed they knew what the public needed .
19 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 .
20 When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure :
21 Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water .
22 He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London .
23 I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story .
24 One of the Germans stationed in the house got suspicious of Antoinette hanging about near the cellar door and made her give him the key and go down there with him so he could see what she was hiding .
25 Juliet was remembering Celia 's frightened voice as she asked her to tell her the blood results before anyone else .
26 We cut out a Fife man and made him tell us the plan for the men they dropped on the Forth .
27 But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like .
28 St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push .
29 I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team .
30 She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet .
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