Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] he in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor . |
| 2 | Doctors fought to save him in the days afterward . |
| 3 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 4 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 5 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 6 | Their theme was simplicity itself : the precentor wished to become a monk ; the bishop wished to retain him in the service of the cathedral . |