Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
2 | At least be flattered that I chose you to tell the truth to . ’ |
3 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
4 | Then his wife was frightened , and she said , " It is only a tale that I told you to ease your heart . |
5 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
6 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
7 | I do n't know that I meant you to guess anything , ’ he said grudgingly . |
8 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |
9 | An example I can cite is that I asked her to research and write up ( unsupervised ) an application to the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation for the microfilming of our 100,000 items in the Archive Collection . |
10 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
11 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
12 | I assure the House that , in all the speeches that I have made at police meetings and conferences this year , I have repeatedly stressed to the police that I want them to give this type of crime high priority . |
13 | ‘ I 've told my promoter Barry Hearn that I want it to come off next September and I want it to be outdoors . |
14 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
15 | Not that I want you to agree with your colleague , but check perhaps , particularly for a bearing yourself . |
16 | If you think of a famous building that you associate with London okay we are doing life in the city , we all live in London okay , think in your mind of a famous building for example Saint Paul 's , what I want you to do , and we 'll go round the class , is that I want you to describe yourself |
17 | ‘ So much so that I want you to do it again . ’ |
18 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
19 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
20 | Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder . |
21 | So you 're all agreed that I want you to pack up at half past ten ? |
22 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
23 | ‘ You may remember that I begged you to make love to me the first time , Penry Vaughan ! |
24 | Not that I expect you to heed my warning . |
25 | Apart from that I leave you to make your own sleeping arrangements . |
26 | She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside . |
27 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
28 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
29 | ‘ If I said to you , ’ replies Anya wearily , ‘ that I wanted you to stop what you were doing , stop everything , and drive miles and miles , into the back of beyond , just to be with me , you 'd have told me to piss off . ’ |
30 | ‘ I told you in my letter last week that I wanted you to arrange for me to meet him . |