Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave a similar answer when he asked her to open the automatic cash dispenser . |
| 2 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 3 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 4 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 5 | He wants them to scrap the minimum lending rates which are used to keep interest rates high , even though the bank base rates have fallen . |
| 6 | He wants me to tell the same traveller 's tales as 'im and 'is mates — the artful hound ! |
| 7 | He wants you to write the whole book here . |
| 8 | Carver knew for a fact that Hauser had a collection of Roosevelt film clips , that he studied them to perfect the famous American president 's mannerisms . |
| 9 | It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 10 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 11 | He should not be named , but he begged me to tell the outside world of the appalling situation where the wounded are dying unnecessarily because the UN are refusing to transport the wounded out of the city . ’ |
| 12 | He encouraged them to tackle the widespread Highland areas still under survey so that maps and memoirs could be published in an organised manner . |
| 13 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
| 14 | He beckoned her to do the same . |
| 15 | The same attitude is recognizable in the fragments of the histories of Posidonius , the pupil of Panaetius who , amidst all his philosophical work , decided to become the continuator of Polybius for the period after 146 B.C. It is uncertain whether Posidonius concluded his histories with the events of Sulla 's dictatorship or whether he extended them to include the Eastern wars of Pompey . |
| 16 | He wanted it to replace the official versions in the liturgy . |