Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 2 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 3 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 4 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 5 | ‘ What the hell do you want to see him for ? ’ asked Brown . |
| 6 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 7 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 8 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 9 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 10 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 11 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 12 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 13 | Of course I wanted to help but did n't want to startle him by suddenly appearing . |
| 14 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 15 | She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions . |
| 16 | Promises quite often concern the actions of others : to consent to be governed by another is to promise to obey him ; to consent to his joining the expedition is to promise to provide him with the facilities and the help made available to members of the expedition . |
| 17 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 18 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 19 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 20 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 21 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 24 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 25 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 26 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 27 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 28 | ‘ I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight . |
| 29 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 30 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |