Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [verb] to the " in BNC.
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1 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
2 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
3 | But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink . |
4 | I heard him refer to the Danuese as ‘ natives ’ and myself once as a ‘ Chinaman ’ . |
5 | I watched him attending to the new arrivals and tried to recall the details about him . |
6 | and each time I watched him talking to the drivers |
7 | Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys . |
8 | Erm the other thing that , that I could n't quite hear but I thought when you were asking him about where he 'd been with the navy , I thought he said to the Far East unfortunately . |
9 | I thought he had probably made an arrangement with a brothel-keeper , and sometimes I pictured him clinging to the branch of a tree peering in the darkness through the window of some schoolgirls ' dormitory . |
10 | Well educated in Latin , French , German , Flemish , Spanish and Italian as well as in the Gaelic which enabled him to talk to the most suspicious and recalcitrant Highlanders , he gathered about him scholars and artists to add distinction to what soon became not merely the constitutional but also the cultural capital of the north . |
11 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
12 | From her hut she heard him call to the Moi and her sons , and a moment later they all plunged naked into the river . |
13 | ‘ A bit , ’ she said , and she watched him walk to the end of the bed . |
14 | She watched him walk to the door and open it . |
15 | ‘ Aye , where else ? ’ she said as she , too , rose from the settle and returned to the couch , from where she watched him go to the box that was standing on the end of the sideboard , and from it take a piece of silver , then button his coat across his broad chest , take his cap from his pocket and , having put it on at an angle , salute her , saying , ‘ Your servant , madam . ’ |
16 | She watched him cross to the pile and rummage around . |
17 | Poor Prince was seriously hurt , and as she watched he fell to the ground . |
18 | She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little . |
19 | I thought you said he went to the dentist ? |
20 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
21 | They watched him come to the door . |
22 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
23 | It caused him to scuttle to the edge of the path and roll into a ball . ’ |
24 | It told him to come to the court on a certain day to defend himself before a Commissioner and the man who said he owed him money . |
25 | He claimed he fled to the United States to avoid being executed by the IRA . |
26 | He watched him go to the bar and get a glass of wine , looked away , aware that he was approaching . |
27 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
28 | He said he wrote to the former Beatle about the problem but had not had a reply . |
29 | As the flames became more intense , he said he shouted to the girls to get out . |
30 | That 's what stopped him getting to the top . |