Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 2 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 3 | I want to get him up to Inspector as soon as possible . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 5 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish to God now I 'd lugged him back to his chain gang by the ear . |
| 7 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 8 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 9 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 10 | Therefore , Patterson was a bigger wig than I 'd had him down as . |
| 11 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 12 | He looked so miserable I decided to cheer him up by inviting him to join our little game , and started throwing handfuls of water over him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I managed to talk him round by telling him what he can achieve here . |
| 15 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 16 | So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know . |
| 17 | Afterwards I had to take him out to the pub to revive him . ’ |
| 18 | When I had stretched him out on the floor , I stood over him . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 20 | Somewhere they 've got a , there 's a picture of him and I 've named him out of one of the photos I brought over . |
| 21 | So I 've kept him off for off it 's not fair with Oliver . |
| 22 | I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter . |
| 23 | I 've had him off with that first foul in the first minute , that he committed , ridiculous |
| 24 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 25 | ‘ Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins . |
| 26 | Oh , I 've got him in at the play school you see , starts play school after Easter |
| 27 | The poor little mite has the colic , but I have dosed him up with laudanum . ’ |
| 28 | I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room . |
| 29 | I wanted to get him down to Théovard . |