Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him to " in BNC.

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1 In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) .
2 On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages .
3 He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient .
4 I asked him to I told him to .
5 Like I asked him to .
6 Dem drag him to de police van
7 I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin .
8 Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side .
9 I trust him to your charge , Father Abbot . ’
10 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 .
11 But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to .
12 I expected him to be with me , his stentorian ubiety transmogrifying the spacious library into somewhere shabby and small .
13 I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’
14 Hell , I beat him to the handshake and it 's on camera . ’
15 But I beat him to it .
16 It 's a promise I expect him to equal .
17 , I said , she said but I expect him to .
18 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 .
19 When we started rehearsing , I found him to be very friendly and lots of fun , like a younger brother or son . ’
20 I found him to be a wise friend and an exemplorary leader of the western world .
21 As I wanted Eliot to meet us together , I invited him to lunch at this crowded chatter-filled establishment on 22 October 1945 .
22 One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 I want him to be happy …
27 I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard .
28 Charles and I want him to be godfather , did Charles say ? ’
29 well I want him to , I 've had enough , I think its
30 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 . ’
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