Example sentences of "i [verb] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 2 | I asked him to I told him to . |
| 3 | Like I asked him to . |
| 4 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 5 | ‘ I trust him to your charge , Father Abbot . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't stand it , I got him to retie my hands in front and then I unhooked the monsters and smashed them on the hearth . |
| 7 | But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to . |
| 8 | I expected him to be with me , his stentorian ubiety transmogrifying the spacious library into somewhere shabby and small . |
| 9 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 10 | Hell , I beat him to the handshake and it 's on camera . ’ |
| 11 | But I beat him to it . |
| 12 | It 's a promise I expect him to equal . |
| 13 | , I said , she said but I expect him to . |
| 14 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 15 | When we started rehearsing , I found him to be very friendly and lots of fun , like a younger brother or son . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I found him to be a wise friend and an exemplorary leader of the western world . |
| 17 | As I wanted Eliot to meet us together , I invited him to lunch at this crowded chatter-filled establishment on 22 October 1945 . |
| 18 | One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police . |
| 19 | It 's a way of saying to yourself , if he really loves me , he 'll stop doing that because I want him to ’ , Roz says . |
| 20 | I want us still to go out together , I want him to be my boyfriend , I really need him to confide in , as I do n't seem to have a close girlfriend . |
| 21 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
| 22 | ‘ I want him to be happy … |
| 23 | I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard . |
| 24 | Charles and I want him to be godfather , did Charles say ? ’ |
| 25 | well I want him to , I 've had enough , I think its |
| 26 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 27 | I rang up , just to check that he 'd taken it straight along there , like I told him to , and they said I had to fill in all these forms . |
| 28 | Was drunk , and so I told him to ‘ clear . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I told him to . |
| 30 | ‘ I told him to . |