Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sue , can I , I need to ask him a question . |
| 2 | Actually I forgot about it or else I would 've ma I would 've got him a card . |
| 3 | Plus Thomas 's wedding an'all and I 'd like to buy him a decent present like considering His flat 's nice . |
| 4 | so er we must remember to buy him a card and something |
| 5 | When I accepted he suggested I might like to give him a certain sum to help the wine flow . |
| 6 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |
| 7 | He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself . |
| 8 | I 've found out more about it now , so if you would n't mind giving him a message , Ruth ? |
| 9 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 10 | If we can put all this point-scoring to one side , I should like to ask him a question concerning several thousand of my constituents . |
| 11 | She did not like to ask him the nature of his work , thinking that if he were something incommunicable , the effort of inventing a lie might crack him up completely . |
| 12 | Still ca n't you dare to make him an offer on it ? |
| 13 | I would like to show him a folder overflowing with letters from visitors to Llangoed Hall , praising the warmth and professionalism of the staff . |
| 14 | He even suggested maybe I 'd like to show him the cut . |
| 15 | ‘ We like to think that the programme is n't in competition with Barry Norman , but we do want to give him a run for his money . ’ |
| 16 | D I did n't want to give him a false impression . |
| 17 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 18 | She did n't want to give him the satisfaction . |
| 19 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 20 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |
| 21 | Perhaps his teacher should have given him a better word than ‘ tidgy ’ , but they both knew what they meant . |
| 22 | ‘ Could you have given him a home ? ’ |
| 23 | I could have given him a straight rejection , but I suppose that was not in my nature . |
| 24 | Presumably , the estate agent would have given him a lift somewhere . |
| 25 | ‘ Even before you pointed out his similarity to Clinton , I would have given him a reasonable rating . |
| 26 | Colin was on City 's books in the 1960s and the 77th-minute winner must have given him a kick . |
| 27 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 28 | You must have given him a pretty sleepless night through not answering the telephone . ’ |
| 29 | His early acquaintance with Pub ] ius Rutilius Rufus at the school of Panaetius must have given him a first taste of Roman optimates : later he had Pompey and Cicero among his admirers . |
| 30 | And we 'll have given him a clue for how to budget for next year as well . |