Example sentences of "he [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd remember me , too , because he would have wondered what percentage I had on him that entitled me to come down from her apartment in the early morning . |
| 2 | In the empty streets we finally flagged down a taxi , prostrated ourselves before him and persuaded him to drive to the hitherto uncharted climes of Muswell Hill . |
| 3 | Mr eleven year old son offered to help so one of the put a gun to him and forced him to lead them to him threatening him at the same time . |
| 4 | Mr Miah 's eleven year old son offered to help , so one of them put a gun on him and forced him to lead them to it . |
| 5 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 6 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 7 | Stromson said : ‘ Paul also told me that Dr Bean-Bayog shared her erotic fantasies with him and asked him to act them out with her — and that they did . ’ |
| 8 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 9 | I telephoned him and asked him to explain . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to know if you ever wrote to him and asked him to meet you . ’ |
| 11 | Then he pulled her towards him and asked her to give him a kiss , but she pulled away quickly when she saw Mum 's scowl . |
| 12 | I thanked him and told him to tell my mother not to worry , I knew what to do . |
| 13 | The president thanked him and told him to keep him in touch with any further developments . |
| 14 | Graham took a step towards her but the English-speaking Arab levelled the pistol menacingly at him and ordered him to remain where he was . |
| 15 | Every evening he made her sit with him and ordered her to say to him , ‘ You are very handsome , my lord . ’ |
| 16 | So he 'll be glad to know that she thought about him and wanted him to know it . ’ |
| 17 | In spite of Paxford 's strong left-wing views , Minto idolized him and allowed him to occupy the same sort of position in her household as John Brown had occupied at the court of Queen Victoria . |
| 18 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 19 | Now this short note cruelly dashed his hopes : the mysterious writer apologised for not meeting him but asked him to wait amongst the ancient ruins to the north-west of the Tower . |