Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [verb] [prep] 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 | ‘ 84 for 2 , Mr Beesley , ’ I would shout as I passed him snoozing in the sun beneath the gangling wisteria . |
| 4 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 5 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 8 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 9 | I told him to surrender without the sugar . |
| 10 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 11 | I waited till I heard him go into the bathroom , grabbed all my gear and tiptoed out of the house . |
| 12 | I heard him refer to the Danuese as ‘ natives ’ and myself once as a ‘ Chinaman ’ . |
| 13 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 14 | He pretended to me that he was already booked in there , but he was n't — I heard him ask for the room afterwards . |
| 15 | His door opened and closed , quietly , but not secretively , and I heard him going down the stairs . |
| 16 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 17 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 18 | I watched him attending to the new arrivals and tried to recall the details about him . |
| 19 | and each time I watched him talking to the drivers |
| 20 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 21 | Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys . |
| 22 | When Sir Oswald appeared on the steps , the crowd surged round him and I saw him struck from the right . |
| 23 | I saw him go into the room where the telephone is . ’ |
| 24 | I saw him go through the gate into the woods … ’ |
| 25 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw him play in the Schools Cup . ’ |
| 27 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 28 | I saw him like on the right , on the path and I goes I goes what you do I goes gon na be sick . |
| 29 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw him come up the path , ’ said an angry voice . |