Example sentences of "he [vb past] i [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’ |
| 2 | He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation … |
| 3 | When I caught up with Jean-Claude , he told me to return to the cottage alone . |
| 4 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He told me to look across the moor to a place which was a bright green colour . |
| 7 | ’ He told me to write with the head , and not with the heart . |
| 8 | ‘ He told me to stay in the house — not to go out . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I decided to go to a financial adviser , ’ continues Angie , ‘ He advised me to remortgage with a lender with a lower standard rate and for £20,000 more than we had originally borrowed when we bought the house . |
| 10 | He advised me to go to the Academy and work with Professor Dachauer . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | When we got to the market , for the first time he allowed me to bargain with the dealers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | he encouraged me to embark on a book , intended to be published in a new series he was editing with Longman Group Ltd. ( then Longmans Green ) . |
| 15 | As an active Trotskyite he encouraged me to speak of the prejudice and abuse I 'd faced being the son of an Indian . |
| 16 | He taught me to aim for the knees since any weapon firing on automatic would climb high and right , and thus the fall of shot could be evenly distributed across the stomach and torso , ending in the head . |
| 17 | And he taught me to fly like a bird , wo oh oh ! |
| 18 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 19 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 20 | He wanted me to go round the block and park the car about fifty metres short of the hotel . |
| 21 | He wanted me to look at the provision by the business of work experience for secondary school students during the compulsory stage of their education . |