Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [verb] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He should be leaving about now , and if I know him he 'll have left me to pay his hotel bill . |
| 2 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 3 | He knew about them investigations , that I was being watched , and he could have told me to slow down a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not sure he would have wanted me to have anything else . |
| 5 | If the hon. Gentleman had wanted a detailed comment on it , he would have invited me to look at it before he asked his question . |
| 6 | I 'm sure he would have asked me to stay on if I had . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |