Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 3 | I promised to see that Constanza would get to Brussels on time , and he promised to take me behind the scenes of the art world . |
| 4 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 5 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 6 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 7 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
| 8 | He seemed to like me as a person — I felt I could trust him . ’ |
| 9 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 10 | His face was scarlet and twisted with hate and he began to attack me like a wild animal . |
| 11 | He started to clout me around the head , yelling , ‘ Burglar ! |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody except me that is , ’ I added hastily in case he decided to throw me in the dungeons . |
| 13 | He continued to astound me for the next four years . |
| 14 | Howard Hawks , who owned my contract , always said that he wanted to put me in a film with either Bogie , or Cary Grant , and I always thought , ‘ Oh , Cary Grant , naturally , how great that would be . ’ |
| 15 | He wanted to take me to a disco but I said no . |
| 16 | He wanted to take me to the dance , you see . |
| 17 | ‘ He wanted to hurt me with a knife , ’ explains Ludo . |
| 18 | ‘ He wanted to tell me about the lion hunt Claudia organized . |