Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] he [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't finish because that would be pushy if she admitted she expected him to ask her to stay with him as he had done once before . |
| 2 | He said he reckoned she wanted him to see . |
| 3 | ‘ I guessed you wanted him to give it to me anyway , ’ she punched back . |
| 4 | But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly . |
| 5 | In one artist 's statement , he remarked : Whilst the Lefevre exhibition established him as urban romantic with a particular feeling for Thames-side subjects , a number of commissions followed which allowed him to develop this vein . |
| 6 | The agent just gave it to me , which obviously meant he wanted him to do it and is unusual because they do n't normally give out telephone numbers . |
| 7 | Sheer mental power was the ability which Coleridge possessed which enabled him to accomplish this feat , as he does in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , when , sitting in his cottage he takes in the ‘ Sea , hill , and wood This populous village ! … with all the numberless goings on of life . ’ |
| 8 | I said I wanted him to go to an outside hospital , so they took him . |
| 9 | Well he was dashing out when I when I called him erm his wife answered the phone and she said you just him he 's going out at the door so he came rushing back and I said I wanted him to judge champion of champions and the and I said there 'll be two and he said , hang on , and he 's write it down said I 'll just stick it all at one and see to it when I come back , oh I got ta go and he went . |
| 10 | I said I wanted him to meet my Somerville friend , who , with a fellow-student , was by pre-arrangement sitting on an inner windowsill , from which with an air of spontaneity I was able to summon them down . |
| 11 | These patterns and the genes that encoded them enabled him to study snail evolution — how and why snail populations diverged from each other . |
| 12 | The soft little click the door made when she closed it caused him to turn his head , and not by one flicker of an eyelash did he betray any emotion of her entrance . |