Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’ |
| 3 | He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation … |
| 4 | He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden . |
| 5 | Another time he got us to lie on the floor with our legs in the air . |
| 6 | He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet . |
| 7 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
| 8 | it was supposed to be a normal meeting but he changed it to talk about the cuts you know the |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When I caught up with Jean-Claude , he told me to return to the cottage alone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He told me to look across the moor to a place which was a bright green colour . |
| 14 | ’ He told me to write with the head , and not with the heart . |
| 15 | ‘ He told me to stay in the house — not to go out . ’ |
| 16 | Then he told us to go into the hospital where the nurse would show us what to do . |
| 17 | He told us to sit by the fire . |
| 18 | ‘ My guess is they came for some of Connie Fraser 's clothes , found the place upside down and me on the floor , then when they reported to Bonanza he told 'em to forget about the clothes . ’ |
| 19 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 20 | He said , it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police told her when you come back we 'll have all this typed out , your statement but we 'll need you to sign so tell the coach driver to stay at , stop at the police station for you to sign it and I , I said to her , how , how did you manage to stop that boy ? |
| 21 | He advised me to go to the Academy and work with Professor Dachauer . |
| 22 | Frequently he would stop on his walk around the teams on a Sunday , and at least on one occasion he advised me to break from the scrum more often ( in those days airmen scrum-halfs played to orders ) . |
| 23 | He allowed her to claim against the Huntingdon Health Authority responsible for the hospital where the operation was performed in December 1982 . |
| 24 | When we got to the market , for the first time he allowed me to bargain with the dealers . |
| 25 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 26 | There was not a sound except the stamping hoofs and as she watched he allowed it to come to the ground , pacing it in that superb prancing way , its silken tail swaying . |
| 27 | As an active Trotskyite he encouraged me to speak of the prejudice and abuse I 'd faced being the son of an Indian . |
| 28 | His face was still , his mouth held in a taut beautiful line , his eyes as cold as an arctic glacier as he encouraged her to continue with the slightest nod of his head . |
| 29 | As a matter of fact , he hated anyone to get to the post before himself , needed to be the first to turn them over and sort them out . |
| 30 | Raised in extreme poverty he taught himself to paint in the style of Durer , Bosch , Leonardo and other Old Masters . |