Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’ |
| 2 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
| 3 | If a balance were left over , it would be reasonable for him to try to use it to repay those who have set the trend . |
| 4 | Even Brando became so concerned over Clift 's drinking that he went to see him to try to persuade him to join AA . |
| 5 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 6 | The man who , up to then , had experienced 18 years as a player at the highest level revealed how the sack made him determined to prove he had not suddenly become second rate . |
| 7 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 8 | Darren had been a poor feeder even in the early days and mother remembered spending hours with him trying to get him to take the bottle . |
| 9 | no , but the spiders , I remember that one that got , was on the daddy-longlegs and he was just sitting there and he would n't move and no one would walk down the stairs , so we were just giving it pouf pouf and all throwing things at him trying to get him to go . |
| 10 | He points to research which shows children are eager to belong to their culture from infancy . |
| 11 | He planned to bring her to meet his parents before he went there a second time , with her . |
| 12 | ‘ He agreed to let her go out , but threatened her life if she was to raise the alarm . |
| 13 | ‘ Which is why he was looking for you — although how on earth he expected to persuade you to pay up the difference I do n't know ! ’ |
| 14 | AT first he failed to notice we had stopped . |
| 15 | He misinterpreted the Act and he failed to allow himself to have the jurisdiction to deal in a flexible manner with the children , which is the whole purpose of the Act , and consequently it is for this court to make the order that it appears Judge Galpin would have liked to have made and felt impeded from so doing . |
| 16 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 17 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 18 | Although he failed to check it had been accident-free , he assured the lady that this was the case . |
| 19 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 20 | First he sought to use it to spread the gospel of trade unionism elsewhere in the north-east and eventually persuaded it to establish branches at Middlesbrough , Hartlepool , Seaham Harbour and in North and South Shields . |
| 21 | Often he tried to stop her leaving the house . |
| 22 | The chow-chow sank his teeth into Ravi Bhatiasevi 's arm when he tried to stop him fighting another dog . |
| 23 | Unfortunately it was not a very good lute , as the assistant in the music shop to which he tried to sell it pointed out at — unnecessarily — great length . |
| 24 | Every time he tried to move he got a burst of machine gun fire . |
| 25 | Then he tried to force me to take the damn' thing , and I had to call attention to my delicate condition . |
| 26 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 27 | He was also dubious about the interview ; he tried to persuade me to settle for interviewing Ortega 's brother , Humberto . |
| 28 | He thought the danger was Barbara Coleman so he tried to keep her hidden until you 'd gone away . |
| 29 | It suited Adam not to reply in German and he gesticulated wildly as he tried to make her understand . |
| 30 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |