Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] him " in BNC.
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1 | He felt like telling the old folk it was not New Year 's Eve , but he doubted if they would believe him . |
2 | Oh , Hilly , how I love you ! ’ he exclaimed before she could answer him . |
3 | Gabriel knocked at the door and asked if they could give him a bed for the night and a bite to eat . |
4 | ‘ Mr Cunningham asked if you could spare him a few minutes before leaving the hotel . |
5 | Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her . |
6 | He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson , I said ‘ No ’ , which he said relieved him . |
7 | He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson . |
8 | My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him . |
9 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
10 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
11 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
12 | ‘ I would n't go without Brian so I asked if I could have him buried beside my parents in Scotland . |
13 | He hesitated a minute and then asked if she would like him to examine her . |
14 | She recalls that she met her ex-husband , cameraman Danny Mindel , on a plane going to the Seychelles and , after chatting for ages , asked if she could kiss him : ‘ And when I kissed him I knew I was going to marry him . ’ |
15 | She asked if she could join him ; his answer was short and negative . |
16 | But the crash happened before they could stop him . |
17 | I thought if I could see him … ’ |
18 | It would be lovely he said if somebody could give him a ring . |
19 | I wondered if we should let him drive , given the state he was in . |
20 | She wondered if she should tell him about Amy 's having been a nurse . |
21 | She wondered if she should wake him , but his breathing became easier and she relaxed . |
22 | I wondered if I should tell him this , and decided he might not think it funny . |
23 | I I wondered if you might ask him . |
24 | Watching him stride away , hurt and humiliated by the shocking scene he had just witnessed , she wondered whether she should tell him her secret . |
25 | At first , he 'd worried that Amber Epipheny would be jealous of him , and wondered whether she 'd confront him about the matter . |