Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 2 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 3 | Promises quite often concern the actions of others : to consent to be governed by another is to promise to obey him ; to consent to his joining the expedition is to promise to provide him with the facilities and the help made available to members of the expedition . |
| 4 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 5 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 6 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 7 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 8 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 9 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 10 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 11 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 12 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 13 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 14 | He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’ |
| 15 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 16 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 17 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 18 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 19 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 20 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 21 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 22 | ‘ Strangely enough , ’ Ockleton had said , Harry having to strain to hear him amidst the noise and smoke as closing time drew near , ‘ Rex was the one who seemed to interest Heather the most . |
| 23 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 24 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 25 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 26 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 27 | Cos I , I want to send him into the shed because I had him first |
| 28 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 29 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 30 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |