Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 'E left me roastin' outside the gates while 'e went an' phoned the police , ’ Freddie moaned .
2 I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week .
3 Then he made me look at the windows .
4 He made them sound like the Famous Five
5 He made them sound like the Famous Five .
6 He made it cling to the garments of his characters to provide them with something of their personalities .
7 Time and again , he made it run through the sequence with him .
8 Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter .
9 He asked her to go into the fo'c's'le and as soon as she was inside closed the hatch and said that she could come out when she was ready to apologise .
10 He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’
11 He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation …
12 He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden .
13 Another time he got us to lie on the floor with our legs in the air .
14 It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun .
15 ‘ She will start training for Wimbledon this weekend , ’ added her agent , but he admitted her playing in the year 's third Grand Slam tournament was ‘ not a certainty ’ .
16 He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet .
17 And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself .
18 When he came home he found her peering into the well of his top hat .
19 He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear .
20 He let them trail on the ground .
21 And he let them help in the shop ( Carrie loved that : measuring out things on the scales and giving the change ) until Nick stole some biscuits one day and he came in and caught him .
22 I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks .
23 Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ .
24 And he let us climb to the top deck of the car , with a much better view of the route , this being usually reserved for smokers .
25 it was supposed to be a normal meeting but he changed it to talk about the cuts you know the
26 He told her to look in the table drawer in the living-room — he thought there might be a spare drying-up cloth in it .
27 He told them to go amongst the people of the land and offer them their service , to defend Minginish instead of conquering it ; for the most earth a man ever needs is what is piled in his grave .
28 When I caught up with Jean-Claude , he told me to return to the cottage alone .
29 And there , the tailor , he 'd been trained in the war , and he he only had one la leg , and he seemed very nice , but er he told me to start on the Monday and then I got a letter .
30 He told me to look across the moor to a place which was a bright green colour .
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