Example sentences of "[vb base] him [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Send him to a regional office ? ’ |
| 2 | Ronny is wanted by 6 or 7 norw. clubs — some want him as a central defender , some as central midfielder , some as a wide midfielder and some as an attacker . |
| 3 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |
| 4 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |
| 5 | Charlemagne and the pope had received information from certain persons that Offa was suggesting that the Frankish king should depose Hadrian and replace him with a new pope of Frankish extraction . |
| 6 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 7 | But because it 's so authentic people often mistake him for a real policeman . |
| 8 | erm the managerial action which is available for you , t to take him out of there and put him into a different post , because he 's not capable of doing . |
| 9 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 10 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
| 11 | Ian Snodin 1.1 EVERTON ( Telegraph class him as a full back ? ! ) |
| 12 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 13 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 14 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 15 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 16 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
| 17 | Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close . |
| 18 | Most people neither know nor care about tensions and conflicts within minorities , so when a recognisable spokesman ( and it is always a man ) emerges , they unquestioningly accept him as a legitimate representative . |
| 19 | Although a managing director will usually be an employee the courts sensibly view him in a different light from that of a manual worker . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember him from a long time ago . |
| 21 | They portray him as a confused mixture of honesty and cantankerousness : a big heart governed by a stroppy mind . |
| 22 | All accounts , for example , depict him as a learned man — which was , one must remember , unusual in those largely illiterate times , when education was essentially an adjunct of class . |
| 23 | When he 's crawling fast , direct him towards a noisy beanbag . |
| 24 | Fill him up with food and booze , direct him to a warm room and then pray hard . |
| 25 | We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own . |
| 26 | Does the Secretary of State dismiss him as a dismal Jimmy , or does he agree with me that Mr. Watkin knows what he is talking about ? |
| 27 | No it 's probably er a reaction like you do if you tickle him in a certain place they go do n't they ? |
| 28 | I follow him down , lose him in a small cloud , recover visual contact , and stay just above him as he begins to circle . |
| 29 | All he could think of was : ‘ Keep him in a good mood ! |
| 30 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |