Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 2 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 3 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 4 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 5 | It was such a collective experience that John was n't mine any more , I had to share him with all these people , each with different motivations and reasons for being here . |
| 6 | Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’ |
| 7 | I have to thank him for that . |
| 8 | Instead of having Matt to myself , when I have n't seen him for months and months , I have to share him with this wretched woman who ca n't get her act together ! |