Example sentences of "i [verb] him [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually I let him go on the . |
| 2 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 3 | I waited till I heard him go into the bathroom , grabbed all my gear and tiptoed out of the house . |
| 4 | I heard him refer to the Danuese as ‘ natives ’ and myself once as a ‘ Chinaman ’ . |
| 5 | He pretended to me that he was already booked in there , but he was n't — I heard him ask for the room afterwards . |
| 6 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 7 | I saw him go into the room where the telephone is . ’ |
| 8 | I saw him go through the gate into the woods … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I saw him play in the Schools Cup . ’ |
| 10 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 11 | I saw him like on the right , on the path and I goes I goes what you do I goes gon na be sick . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw him come up the path , ’ said an angry voice . |
| 13 | Now I see him scramble for the fallen gun . |