Example sentences of "and [vb base] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 2 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | WE WISH TO REMOVE CASTRO AND REPLACE HIM WITH A WEALTHY RIGHT WING ENTREPRENEUR |
| 5 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
| 10 | As he leapt to the attack again , he uttered a hoarse , nerve-shattering scream , the purpose of which was to startle his opponent momentarily and distract him for a fatal fraction of time . |
| 11 | Far from slaking his thirst , all his weekend with her had done was whet his appetite and leave him with a desperate craving for more . |
| 12 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 13 | Perhaps Eleanor was strong enough to force Gina out of his life and house , and help him to a new beginning . |
| 14 | Vincent once tried to persuade him to give up his safe career and join him as a fellow painter — like other famous brothers in art history . |