Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course , why do you think I asked him to attend the opening of the store ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I asked him to take a fresh look at the situation , because my gut feeling is that the decision that 's been taken is not the right one . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I asked him to get the UFO files opened . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I asked him to hand the letter to you . |
| 6 | Well I asked him to bring the dust bins in . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked him to play the most tortured , painful lead possible — the most horrible thing he could come up with ! ’ laughs Matthew . |
| 8 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |
| 9 | What we did was he draws them out every morning cos I collared him stuck the towels over his shoulders and said just put us them over there . |
| 10 | I made him take an oath |
| 11 | ‘ I 've bin rubbin' 'im wiv that liniment ole Doctor Kelly give me , an' I made 'im wear a sheet o' brown paper under 'is vest . |
| 12 | We brought a rescue team and an appliance — ’ I realized he meant a fire engine — ‘ but we were able to get the girl out through the windscreen . |
| 13 | Does the Prime Minister recall that , on 26 February 1991 , I met him to discuss the case of my constituent , John Hall , who is seriously ill with leukaemia , an illness contracted while he was serving on Christmas island ? |
| 14 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 15 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 16 | I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace . |
| 17 | ( 38 ) I helped him address the letters . |
| 18 | I helped him put the frame back . |
| 19 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 20 | I told him stealing a car would n't solve anything and he agreed to park the car . |
| 21 | I told him to lock the car . |
| 22 | ‘ I told him to take a break and have a rethink about the rest of the meeting . ’ |
| 23 | I told him to take a miss on the instruction part . |
| 24 | ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’ |
| 25 | so I told him to buy a couple of pies and some biscuits while I went to phone someone . |
| 26 | But anyway apart from that I said to Mr , he 's the head over all the hydroelectric stations over this erm I said Mr li these commutators I told him doing the . |
| 27 | ‘ I noticed he had a few extra bits and pieces on . |
| 28 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 29 | Anyway , I imagined him waving a wand , and the world came into existence . |
| 30 | ‘ … directly reminiscent of the existence of the individual in infancy before he could talk readily , when everyone was bigger and stronger , when chairs and tables were mountainous and had sharp injurious edges , when he could flood the dark universe with light if someone lifted him to press the switch , but when usually his greatest efforts were ineffectual to change anything . |