Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] he [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies .
2 Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed .
3 When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest .
4 Afterwards , when told he had best wait for his bodyguard , Caledor replied that he could expect no better bodyguards than these hunters , and asked them to accompany him on his quest to the shrine .
5 After a short chat he invited me to join him at a ‘ small Chinese gathering ’ in the hall usually used for Tong meetings on River Street West .
6 ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’
7 During the summer of 1977 she watched him play polo at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor and when , in February 1978 , he invited her to join him on a skiing party in Klosters , Switzerland there was much speculation that she might be the future queen of England .
8 She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week .
9 As the crew neared the still floating aircraft they spotted the pilot nearby , they approached him to bring him on board but he pulled a pistol out and was about to fire when the coxswain shot him .
10 The good lady thought that he was shy , and constantly twitted him to bring him into the talk ; Paul hoped that she would get over it as the days passed , and this proved to be the case .
11 After a month the crystals cleared and my vet advised me to keep him on Hills Science Diet CD .
12 ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls .
13 Malpass told me to meet him in Bateman Street .
14 But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house .
15 Love and nature both advised her to have him without thinking of complications , to delight in passion without considering future pain .
16 The president thanked him and told him to keep him in touch with any further developments .
17 He dismissed the service and told us to follow him to the back rooms for counselling .
18 ‘ Mother , I asked you to take him to a cricket match , not to start hacking the poor chap 's rosebushes to pieces . ’
19 ‘ My brother paid me to help him in an unofficial capacity . ’
20 There he revealed himself as god and ordered them to serve him as priests in his new shrine .
21 Last year , Morrissey told the NME : ‘ I am incapable of racism ’ which , in turn , prompted me to exonerate him from any underlying racist intent in his work and to conclude , ‘ the liberal cycle appears to have been completed ’ .
22 But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment .
23 Cleo noticed he had left the circle incomplete ; she knew he expected her to join him within its protection before he sealed it .
24 Now that he had told her everything , he expected her to condemn him for what he had done , but she said nothing .
25 Which is interesting because he also tells me that his father expected him to follow him to Cambridge University .
26 ‘ Hugo Brassard 's asked her to join him in a new agency .
27 Although the ostler 's evening meal was almost ready to be served , the Burford constable asked him to accompany him to Handley Farm , where he was going to talk to Seb , and the two men walked along the road deep in conversation .
28 Redundancy and a wrecked career as a forgotten man seemed inevitable until right out of the blue Graham Taylor threw me a lifeline and persuaded me to join him at Aston Villa .
29 He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 .
30 It hurt her to see him like this , resorting to holding her here to get revenge on Steve .
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