Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drives her to work next day , humming unconcernedly into her silence . |
| 2 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 4 | He asked me to go full-time with him , but I said I was committed to Frank . |
| 5 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 6 | He asked me to reconsider this . |
| 7 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 8 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 9 | Since McFarlane was an honourable man , North was not unduly worried when he asked him to alter official documents ; and when McFarlane sat down at North 's computer on November 18th to type in ‘ additional input that was radically different from the truth ’ , North still considered he must have had ‘ a darn good reason for not putting the straight story out ’ . |
| 10 | If I was you wearing that and he asked you to do that |
| 11 | ‘ This was , of course , after he asked you to become engaged . ’ |
| 12 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 13 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 14 | He wants me to have some tinned pears which have come in from South Africa . |
| 15 | He says he wants me to meet some of his friends . |
| 16 | yeah but he wants somebody to have both |
| 17 | You were his victim ; he wants it to stay that way . |
| 18 | He wants that , yo , he wants you to put some water in that for a test , some of your water in that |
| 19 | In fact , he wants you to ride all his horses . ’ |
| 20 | Is he a baby really , a stupid kid who hides your toys because he wants you to get mad and spend lots of time trying to find them because otherwise nobody 'll take any notice of him ? |
| 21 | He is nervous , Preston thought , he wants us to like each other . |
| 22 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 23 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 24 | Kenneth Baker put the Party faithful under starter 's orders for the next general election ; he told them to get ready for a fight , and then told them why they would win . |
| 25 | So he told me to keep clear of them . |
| 26 | he told me to get lost |
| 27 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 28 | Nos dijo que nos quedemos/quedáramos quietos hasta que el vuelva/volviera — ‘ He told us to stay quiet until he came back ’ |
| 29 | He signalled us to keep still as he stood upright , tightening the grip on his spear . |
| 30 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |