Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 2 | Excuse me has anybody got the time . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , why do you think I asked him to attend the opening of the store ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I asked him to get the UFO files opened . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I asked him to hand the letter to you . |
| 6 | Well I asked him to bring the dust bins in . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked him to play the most tortured , painful lead possible — the most horrible thing he could come up with ! ’ laughs Matthew . |
| 8 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |
| 9 | I asked her to clean the place and make our supper , ’ said Mother . |
| 10 | At this point a friend of mine appeared , whose house is nearby , so I asked her to call the vet and to bring me a couple of bandages to keep the flies off until the vet arrived . |
| 11 | I asked her to meet the press off the back of the BAC One-Eleven as it came to a stop in front of us . |
| 12 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 13 | Rachel I asked you to take the glasses through . |
| 14 | What we did was he draws them out every morning cos I collared him stuck the towels over his shoulders and said just put us them over there . |
| 15 | Just say let's say they also want you to do I want you to do the graph er they wanted this one where it was twenty as well okay . |
| 16 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I made her face the truth , ’ he grated , laying Isabel down on a bench by the door . |
| 18 | You were going to contact someone in ADSW ( I regret I forget the name ) with regard to the possibility of setting up some form of Communications Group representing all Departments in Scotland that would meet perhaps every quarter or half year . |
| 19 | But er I mean we We 've spoken about it before , on the platform , and things like that , that I mean everybody knows the score that if something happens if you 're if you 're sleeping you 've not got a an excellent chance , put it like that , I mean you er I mean nobody ever expected anything like what happened on piper to happen any on that scale . |
| 20 | cor , but its so expensive these night life places , I mean they charge the earth for drinks and that do n't they ? |
| 21 | Er and they thought of , I mean they thought the world of their their animals and but |
| 22 | I mean they put the strangest shops on Road . |
| 23 | so they , I mean they flogged the cheaper lines and they could have through the door like |
| 24 | Mind you the firm that was in there Blue Bag I mean they abused the bloody place they did . |
| 25 | Mind you , I mean they had the dog they had before , got run over . |
| 26 | Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here . |
| 27 | I mean John Knox and Martin Luther Thingmy , I mean they built the Kirk on the tenets of independence . |
| 28 | I mean they wanted the commission |
| 29 | In the first three months , three thousand miles , that does n't tend to happen in fairness erm and something like that would come up erm within that time scale , so , yes , I mean they have the right to go back to the dealer and I must admit in my overall view of the motor trade these days they do they are trying harder and harder to look after their customers because obviously they 're in business like everybody else , they know that their policy holders are covered by the Sale of Goods Act merchantable quality , erm and so they realize that if these things happen then they will endeavour to put the situation right . |
| 30 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |