Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , make sure Stevie ate his bread , watch Gary to see he did n't pinch the beans off Jenny 's plate , talk to Patrick to see he did n't fall asleep again and keep an eye out for fights , punches , kicks under the table and flying crusts . |
| 2 | Then , make sure Stevie ate his bread , watch Gary to see he did n't pinch the beans off Jenny 's plate , talk to Patrick to see he did n't fall asleep again and keep an eye out for fights , punches , kicks under the table and flying crusts . |
| 3 | Its members , led by a former Scottish Office minister , Sir Russell Fairgrieve , will seek a meeting with Mr Lang to urge him to exercise his influence in the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers for Scottish MEPs to be elected by PR , which could dramatically affect Labour 's dominant position in seven out of the eight European seats . |
| 4 | Following the cosy deal in which Reed bought Travel Information Group from Mr Murdoch to help him alleviate his debt problems , the two have gone their separate ways to strengthen their competing US businesses . |
| 5 | Hunger striker by the pub philosopher who wants Gorbachev to have him returned to Czechoslovakia . |
| 6 | For a moment there he badly wanted Johnny to ask him to go to Disneyland . |
| 7 | And she went off to look for Moominpappa to ask him to put up two more beds — very , very small ones . |
| 8 | This was the man whom Mary of Guise described to Sadler as ‘ a simple and the most inconstant man in the world ; for whatsoever he determineth today , he changeth tomorrow ’ ; and there were plenty of people in Scotland to help him to change from his position of March 1543 . |
| 9 | On Nov. 8 Azerbaijan called on Russia to extradite him to face trial . |
| 10 | Obispal had virtually blackmailed Voronov-Vaux to allow him to root out the rebellion with wanton use of force , resulting in all those millions of deaths . |
| 11 | In January , Donleavy called from Washington to say he had met with Hurley and his people to discuss Coleman 's assignment to NARCOG Nicosia , and if he still wanted the job , he should collect the family 's travel expenses and airline tickets from the DEA 's Birmingham field office . |
| 12 | When I got back , I found a card from Ivy asking me to lunch — yesterday — Thursday ; and John had written to Ivy to say he thought I could go , and so I did , and she was pleased to have the loukoumi . |
| 13 | ‘ It would n't have been fair on Alan to ask him to canvass for me before . |
| 14 | The drummer lashed out at Tom and caught him a glancing blow on the jaw and Tom had to be held back by Ollie to prevent him retaliating . |
| 15 | However , Hitler abandoned those peaceful negotiations for threats of violence , and that outraged Chamberlain who appealed to Mussolini to help him persuade Hitler to attend one more conference . |
| 16 | In 1734 , for example , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet , the sheriff-depute of Stirlingshire , pressed Lord Ilay to help him add the office of keeper of the register of sasines for Stirling and the stewartry of Menteith to his official holdings , for he found the sheriffship to be more trouble than it was worth . |
| 17 | Spencer managed to persuade Tony Bianchi to let him have an hour-and-a-half in a Harvard , by way of working up to his most impressive taildragger to date … |
| 18 | ‘ Her English is good , ’ Myeloski continued , warning Duncan to ensure he did n't converse in Russian . |
| 19 | He was also very curious and begged Ted to allow him to have a look round . |
| 20 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 21 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 22 | He deserved a much higher reputation and Rain wished she could trust Joseph to help him acquire one . |
| 23 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 24 | Cos I thought that was a with a utmost difficulty and he has to get his little daughter on Sunday to help him to clean the place . |
| 25 | It was stupid of Lee to let him escape . |
| 26 | Now that Jack Kuehler has persuaded Louis Gerstner to let him go in August — we should have pointed out in yesterday 's issue that he reached retirement age last year and only stayed on because he was pressed to stick around awhiles longer by John Akers , returnee and vice-chairman Paul Rizzo gets additional powers , at least temporarily : four parts of IBM that had reported to Kuehler — its semiconductor , software , AS/400 and personal systems operations — will report to Rizzo . |
| 27 | So the laibon 's son from up there , up the valley past Lengai , he is a descendant of Mbatian , the great laibon , he tries to persuade Turnbull to let him take out his animal from the ones which have been selected . ‘ |
| 28 | The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully . |
| 29 | In 1879 , following attempted trickery by Ismail , Britain intervened with Istanbul to have him thrown out in favour of his son , Tewfik . |
| 30 | He sent Jewish representatives to Jesus to ask him to help . |