Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should I be allowed to give him dietary advice and not be able to advise a young person not to engage in indiscriminate sexual activity ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'm going to call him Caliban . |
| 3 | ‘ I know where he 's staying and I 'm going to tackle him this evening . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's my dad 's birthday today — I 'm going to wish him many happy returns . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to buy him some flower seeds , ’ said Dot . |
| 6 | I 'm meant to marry him one of these days , that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | I was trying to teach him French , as he was finding it hard to keep up with the stream of orders and commands being issued by the staff . |
| 8 | I was trying to find him some couple of pairs of socks but I could n't find anything I liked . |
| 9 | Well I was going to put him some dinner out and he 'll have to heat it up again I think . |
| 10 | I told my grandfather I was going to prove him wrong . ’ |
| 11 | So things are getting more and more fraught with the folks back home who are determined to have him married . |
| 12 | ‘ And you wo n't be over-horsed , not since you are going to ride him side-saddle . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 're trying to make him jealous ? |
| 14 | ‘ She was going to have him all to herself for at least three years , probably more like five , and a part of him for ever … ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 16 | We 're going to set him free in a day or two . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 're going to set him free tomorrow , ’ the child said gleefully . |
| 18 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 19 | So if he wants a hundred thousand , for every ten thousand it 's one pound fifty seven , it 's going to cost him fifteen pounds seventy , and add two pounds , it 's seventeen seventy . |
| 20 | It 's going to make him worse . |
| 21 | The water was heavily impregnated with minerals and unpleasant to drink but after the tea in his flask was finished , it was to help to keep him alive . |
| 22 | But later in the afternoon the light clothing he was wearing left him ill-prepared for the chilling mist and rain that slid down the mountainsides , poignantly recorded on the damp film found in his camera . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a measure of the level of the people with which he was dealing , in that at a time when he thought he might be a witness in another case , he was assaulted rendering him unconscious and his house was the subject of an arson attack . ’ |
| 24 | Give whatever was needed to make him happy . |