Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Right then , I want to see him again on Friday afternoon , and bring a sample of his urine with you . ’
2 I want to get him up to Inspector as soon as possible . ’
3 I attempt to cheer him up by impersonating a Tannoy and announcing the train now arriving at platforms two , three , four , five and six coming in sideways .
4 You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day .
5 There can come a point when a child is genuinely beside himself ( you have to use your knowledge of your child ) and you need to encompass him firmly in your arms until he calms down .
6 His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism .
7 We have to pick him up at midday . ’
8 If we examine God not as protagonist and moral bully but as author of this story , we have to mark him down for plot , motivation , suspense and characterisation .
9 No , if they want to flush him out of hiding , there 's hardly a man they could use but Hotspur . ’
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