Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He normally works for me at St Andrews and I want him to do it because he 'll be retiring after this year . |
| 2 | I want him to hold it forever . |
| 3 | ‘ I want him to get it tomorrow without fail . ’ |
| 4 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 5 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 6 | When early in 1952 he held an exhibition of his work at the Archer Gallery in Notting Hill , he rang up Minton and invited him to see it . |
| 7 | She invited him to cover it up with a paper bag but he snapped the band round the back of his head and ran off into the street , an elephant ramping above the collar of his jersey , his new trunk bobbing . |
| 8 | Payed him to do it . |
| 9 | ‘ I fink 'e was after pinchin' somefing from yer bag , Sergeant Joe , only I come up an' caught him openin' it . ’ |
| 10 | He has made an allegation , and I expect him to substantiate it . |
| 11 | We had to really clump him to get it out of his mouth . |
| 12 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 13 | If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 . |
| 14 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 15 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've let him think it , ’ Mrs Alderley said repressively . |
| 17 | Eva had n't let him see it before ; she just bought it quickly when we sold the house in Beckenham and had to get out . |
| 18 | She had let him have it to comfort him because he minded leaving home and their mother more than she did . |
| 19 | He really is so peculiarly helpless , and I could n't have let him take it home all by himself , could I ? |
| 20 | They found the brassiere under the bed and Jo let him hook it up at the back for her . |
| 21 | She let him pour it for her while she threw another log on to the fire , smashing a cathedral of embers . |
| 22 | For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place . ’ |
| 23 | ( 217b ) * I don't/did n't let him do it , but he does/did it . |
| 24 | You wrote it let him clean it . |
| 25 | Ruth let him take it , and sat drinking her tea while he turned the cup over and over in his hands , gently and half absentmindedly . |
| 26 | She had sort of expected him to leave it all to herself . |
| 27 | Myles helped him to take it off and hung it up . |
| 28 | And when he had undone her gown , and had difficulty in lifting it over her head , she raised herself from the pillow and helped him to take it off . |
| 29 | Mr Johns spoke to McCabe and stopped him reporting it , |
| 30 | His mother had caught him doing it one day and had been extremely angry with him . |