Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante . |
| 2 | The use of special juries of merchants by Lord Mansfield to guide him on the law is well known — not that he always followed their suggestions . |
| 3 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 4 | He allowed Jane to sit him by the table and then damp down his hair with water — ice cold and brackish ! — from the ewer . |
| 5 | Officers had tried all day to contact Mr Maughan to tell him of the tragedy . |
| 6 | He pushed open the door and allowed Catherine to precede him into the studio . |
| 7 | He gestured for Ballater to follow him into the living-room and indicated the chair by the empty fireplace . |
| 8 | He had started by ‘ snorting ’ Temgesic tablets and had then allowed Murray to inject him with the drug . |
| 9 | What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come . |
| 10 | You gave me to understand that even if you had not had your accident you would almost certainly not have come to France to see him at the end . ’ |
| 11 | The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh . |
| 12 | He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet . |
| 13 | Father got Eric to help him with the clearing-up and repairs while I took myself and Paul out from under their feet . |
| 14 | His job was to convince Amaldi to pack his bags because there was a ship waiting at Naples to take him to the United States . |
| 15 | On 27 November 1609 Bowyer succeeded to the office of clerk of the parliaments and shortly afterwards brought Elsynge to assist him in the House of Lords . |
| 16 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 17 | Simon had asked Hilary to marry him in the morning before he went into work . |
| 18 | He did n't need Fraser to tell him about the brother and sister . |
| 19 | Wednesday were shattered at giving up a three-goal lead at home but their plan to expose right-back Paul Parker 's size by getting Hirst to attack him in the air paid off with two goals — plus one for the striker himself . |
| 20 | Just how weak were Rank 's budgetary controls can be seen from their dealings with Gabriel Pascal , the Hungarian producer whose brief career was built on his having persuaded George Bernard Shaw to trust him with the film rights to his plays . |
| 21 | He would grab a completed section of the overall plan from Mark 's private secretary just as soon as she had typed it , and dash off to his own office down the corridor to study it carefully many times over , before taking it along to Muldoon to keep him in the picture . |