Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ? |
| 2 | How could she have let him do that ? |
| 3 | What on earth had made him say that ? |
| 4 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 5 | Have you ever seen him do that flying spin kick ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd seen him like that so many times before , but at least after a couple of days he 'd say , ‘ Vicky , I got to clean up . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd never seen him like that . |
| 8 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 9 | I was surprised they let him do that . |
| 10 | so I thought let him do that , |
| 11 | I let him sleep that night — and succeeding nights — with Montaine … . |
| 12 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 13 | I let him have that bike . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Let him try that ! |
| 15 | ‘ Did you see him do that ? ’ |
| 16 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 17 | To help him do that , manager Graham Taylor 's best hope of Wright reproducing his Arsenal club form for England will be to let his free spirit roam across Wembley . |
| 18 | How marvellous it was to hear him say that . |
| 19 | I 'm sure they 'll be pleased to hear him say that ! |
| 20 | She might secretly find this tall , elegant man extremely disturbing , but she was n't prepared to let him guess that fact . |
| 21 | It is particularly important that this message comes from the woman : your partner is still a real man and you have to let him know that loud and clear . |
| 22 | Robyn had thought much the same on numerous occasions but she was n't about to give him the satisfaction of letting him know that . |
| 23 | I have listened to many of his speeches and I have never heard him advocate that before . |
| 24 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 25 | I 've never heard him say that before . |
| 26 | What I want is to see him win that second gold and wear the flag again — while the Yanks stand fuming . |
| 27 | Turning , seeing him like that , Fei Yen caught her breath . |
| 28 | Zednik is helping him overcome that . |
| 29 | His next goal is to walk and we can be sure that the same strength of character will make him achieve that . |
| 30 | She smiled up at him , wishing she could will the tension out of his body , wishing she could make him relax that guard . |