Example sentences of "he [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ? |
| 2 | Her brain whirling , Luce allowed him to carry her downstairs without further protest . |
| 3 | And get him to carry it . |
| 4 | Gina had remained silent after Rune 's surprise announcement , allowing him to conduct her through the gates and across the road to the Mercedes . |
| 5 | I debated whether to call on him to kill him for his slanders before I came here to try to see her , and ask her to have me back — if you think I would make her a suitable husband , that is . |
| 6 | Did you want him to kill me , then ? |
| 7 | ‘ He is good at his job and I do n't want him to lose it because of something stupid like this . ’ |
| 8 | Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television . |
| 9 | Yet she desperately wanted him to acknowledge her , to have some impact on his contained life . |
| 10 | It reassured him to see her sitting there , so thoughtful and placid . |
| 11 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 12 | Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her . |
| 13 | And yet his knowledge was as nothing beside the compulsion that drove him to see her again . |
| 14 | She felt sorry for him again , and worried because it must hurt him to see her like that . |
| 15 | There was no reason for him to see her again . |
| 16 | She said , looking down , although it was too dark for him to see her blushing , ‘ That first time — I wanted to meet you , Miguelito , very much . |
| 17 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 18 | ‘ Harry asked him to see me home , ’ Fiona said placatingly . |
| 19 | Do I want him to see me ? |
| 20 | I do n't want him to know we 've got divers aboard and I especially do n't want him to see me taking off with divers in the general direction of the Delos . |
| 21 | And of course it was not until the eyes and nose began to discharge that the boy became worried and brought him to see me . |
| 22 | ‘ And I do n't want him to see me . |
| 23 | Persuade him to see me . |
| 24 | It would n't have done for him to see me there . |
| 25 | ‘ Then you may admit him to see me , ’ said Jared Tunstall curtly , immediately informing Neil where McAllister got her logic-chopping ability from . |
| 26 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 27 | He thought to himself ‘ I do n't want him to see me like this ’ . |
| 28 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 29 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 30 | Twin sixes had fallen , rocked , rolled for him to see them . |