Example sentences of "he [vb past] i [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he expected me to break into tears and confess , then he was a good judge of character , but I had Dod to think about and Dod had a missus and kids and anyway was bigger than me and after all was a pretty good drummer . |
| 2 | He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’ |
| 3 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 4 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 5 | He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation … |
| 6 | Well that was OK , but then , to my horror , he got me to join in singing one of his songs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I caught up with Jean-Claude , he told me to return to the cottage alone . |
| 9 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 10 | And there , the tailor , he 'd been trained in the war , and he he only had one la leg , and he seemed very nice , but er he told me to start on the Monday and then I got a letter . |
| 11 | He told me to look across the moor to a place which was a bright green colour . |
| 12 | He told me to look after Cathy carefully , and left at once . |
| 13 | But before I could fetch it , he told me to come near him . |
| 14 | But he told me to think upon it and he would come back for an answer . ’ |
| 15 | ’ He told me to write with the head , and not with the heart . |
| 16 | ‘ He told me to stay in the house — not to go out . ’ |
| 17 | He ignored me to smile at her . |
| 18 | ‘ I decided to go to a financial adviser , ’ continues Angie , ‘ He advised me to remortgage with a lender with a lower standard rate and for £20,000 more than we had originally borrowed when we bought the house . |
| 19 | He advised me to go to the Academy and work with Professor Dachauer . |
| 20 | Frequently he would stop on his walk around the teams on a Sunday , and at least on one occasion he advised me to break from the scrum more often ( in those days airmen scrum-halfs played to orders ) . |
| 21 | When we got to the market , for the first time he allowed me to bargain with the dealers . |
| 22 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 23 | he encouraged me to embark on a book , intended to be published in a new series he was editing with Longman Group Ltd. ( then Longmans Green ) . |
| 24 | As an active Trotskyite he encouraged me to speak of the prejudice and abuse I 'd faced being the son of an Indian . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And he taught me to fly like a bird , wo oh oh ! |
| 27 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 28 | He urged me to come to Paris . |
| 29 | Years ago he persuaded me to go with him up to Tigouga , his home village , and the near-mystical Tichka Plateau above . |
| 30 | I resisted for ages until one night , after a few drinks , he persuaded me to pose for photographs in one of the outfits . |