Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] him [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I want him to buy a car but |
2 | I 'm not out to if they 're going to claim on this diesel then that 's up to them but I 'm not going to have our lads or anybody else blamed for something which definitely does not exist and I shall tell as soon as I erm I meet him to have a chat with him again that he 's going along the wrong lines . |
3 | Often I ask him to remember a birthday , an outing or a holiday , and we start to build the image from there . |
4 | I ask him to bring a packet of wholemeal digestives . |
5 | If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’ |
6 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
7 | We ask him to draw a train standing before a signal . |