Example sentences of "he [verb] i [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cost him a lot in little things , but I know he wants me to ask for something big . |
| 2 | Keegan responded : ‘ It sounds like he wants me to stay for 10 years . |
| 3 | Then he told me to wait for him after I had visited my father , and said that he would try to think of a way to help me without arousing any suspicion . |
| 4 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 5 | He taught me to aim for the knees since any weapon firing on automatic would climb high and right , and thus the fall of shot could be evenly distributed across the stomach and torso , ending in the head . |
| 6 | I resisted for ages until one night , after a few drinks , he persuaded me to pose for photographs in one of the outfits . |
| 7 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |