Example sentences of "i [verb] he [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I suggested he pass the bags to his two lady friends sitting next to him . |