Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [verb] the " 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 get the UFO files opened . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I asked him to hand the letter to you . |
| 5 | Well I asked him to bring the dust bins in . |
| 6 | ‘ I asked him to play the most tortured , painful lead possible — the most horrible thing he could come up with ! ’ laughs Matthew . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 11 | I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace . |
| 12 | ( 38 ) I helped him address the letters . |
| 13 | I helped him put the frame back . |
| 14 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 15 | I told him to lock the car . |
| 16 | ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 19 | He 's aware of concern expressed by Parish Council and he 's going to see them and he will be very happy to come and er speak to us and answer any questions that we wish him to , so I advised him to contact the clerk to make arrangements . |
| 20 | I guessed he wanted the answers too . |
| 21 | I could not understand what he meant , and wanted to hear more about Céline , so I encouraged him to finish the story . |
| 22 | I thought I heard him bring the cows in earlier but he 's grown so deaf he did n't hear when I called him . |
| 23 | I heard him mention the Crusades and the Inquisition . |
| 24 | I heard him lock the chamber door and , a few minutes later , the mewing of his cat scratching at the wood for admittance . |
| 25 | Then he climbed out , and I heard him unlock the door . |
| 26 | I heard him question the Indian and I reached into the cat for the map which he had left on his seat . |
| 27 | I heard him greet the Radio 1 man through the door 30 minutes earlier . |
| 28 | This happened on the Sunday in question , and as I watched him climb the stairs , dragging himself up by the banister , I saw that he was sweating heavily . |
| 29 | He did n't look back and I watched him cross the road , climb a wall and trail away across the fields towards the river . |
| 30 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |