Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 2 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 3 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 4 | Since McFarlane was an honourable man , North was not unduly worried when he asked him to alter official documents ; and when McFarlane sat down at North 's computer on November 18th to type in ‘ additional input that was radically different from the truth ’ , North still considered he must have had ‘ a darn good reason for not putting the straight story out ’ . |
| 5 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 6 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 7 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 8 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 9 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 10 | He advised us to treat any claims of recovery with caution , and he forecast sluggish demand over the next 18 months . |
| 11 | He encouraged her to take public baths , he saw that she ate properly — though indifferent to food himself — and behaved with her like a caring mother , the kind of affectionate mother who had always inspired him . |
| 12 | He ordered me to cut this lot immediately ’ — he laid heavy stress on the word , his mouth twisted in a sardonic grin — ‘ and I told him it would have to wait till this afternoon . ’ |
| 13 | He taught her to make easy corn dollies . |
| 14 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
| 15 | He urged everyone to report suspicious behaviour . |
| 16 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 17 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 18 | At other times his need to go to her was awful , He wanted them to complete each other , to be made fully whole and created by her , instead of enduring the throes of his uncreated self . |
| 19 | Details of the registers would be available before the bill reached the committee stage but he wanted them to contain enough detail to be wholly credible in the eyes of the public . |
| 20 | In the normal course of her work at Coronation Hospital , she would never come into such personal contact with a man as important as Dr Greene , and she would have to remember that he wanted her to recognise this fact while she was Faye Hamilton 's nurse . |
| 21 | He wanted me to put that bit on , you know there are the two bolts |
| 22 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |
| 23 | He wanted you to sell more milk than the cows gave ! |