Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | England found nobody to do what the Pakistan quickies — Wasim Akram in particular — had done to them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Juliet was remembering Celia 's frightened voice as she asked her to tell her the blood results before anyone else . |
| 12 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 13 | I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team . |
| 14 | She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet . |
| 15 | Eventually he persuaded me to give him the name and address of my parents . |
| 16 | ‘ I persuaded him to sell me the rights to manufacture the Seven and I took over everything except the Lotus name . ’ |
| 17 | On Joe 's previous leave he had noticed how quiet and unhappy she seemed , and persuaded her to tell him the reason . |
| 18 | A GANG of five teenagers stole a 20-year-old woman 's cash card and then tortured her to give them the pin number . |
| 19 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |
| 20 | Nikos had been busy , too , and he summoned them to show them the result of his labours . |
| 21 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |