Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " At first , " John went on , obviously bent on making a clean breast of everything , " at first when I tell him you a whore , he do n't believe me , so I got to make him believe . |
| 2 | I long to see him become a Giant . |
| 3 | I tried to make him understand that Brian had n't done anything wrong . |
| 4 | I tried to make him understand , but he refused to listen to me . |
| 5 | I promised to let him know when Edgar Linton was away from home . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to see him take the ball from them , and the strikers , so that he can look to score goals like he did in Wednesday 's game with Turkey . ’ |
| 7 | It 's partly because I 'm so lonely , it 's partly deliberate ( I want to make him relax , both for his own good and so that one day he may make a mistake ) , so it 's part weakness , and part cunning , and part charity . |
| 8 | " Do let me , I like to hear him suck . |
| 9 | I loved to hear him talk about the old days . ’ |
| 10 | On reflection , I decided to let him come to me . |
| 11 | I needed to see him do something special to prove he loved me . ’ |
| 12 | When I offered to let him finish it he laughed . |
| 13 | But I was n't that clever , Alice , because I had to let him do it to me before , instead of after . |
| 14 | I had to make him believe there was a good reason for my being constantly in the club . ’ |
| 15 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
| 16 | But I had to make him keep you on . |
| 17 | There are certain files I refuse to let him see . |
| 18 | Oh I wanted to let him go . |
| 19 | The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him . |