Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do we want to see him hammer nails up his nostrils ? |
| 2 | Certainly from the rapturous reception when he walked on court and the sympathetic response after a performance containing too many embarrassingly bad moments , Borg can rightly claim that people still want to see him play . |
| 3 | I want to assure him Crevecoeur is in no danger , but that SHe must return to Club Eleusis . ’ |
| 4 | The parish officers promised to find him work . |
| 5 | But I have n't come to crunch the guy , I want to hear him talk . |
| 6 | Mr Wakil told a news conference that the President was being held in Kabul with ‘ those who tried to help him escape ’ . |
| 7 | Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court . |
| 8 | In return for this information the chief priests promised to give him money . |
| 9 | Thomas Cromwell was offered £100 for his help in obtaining the post of justice in North Wales ; J. Lucas proposed to give him £10 for wine — literally a pourboire if appointed King 's Solicitor . |
| 10 | The men at the bar moved to give him room . |
| 11 | His marriage with the lovely Susy , designed to give him stability , peace and quiet — things that I believe James actually , despite occasional appearances to the contrary , cherishes — had broken up . |
| 12 | Where Hornblower 's cough is designed to give him time to avoid embarrassment or to get out of a tight corner , Septimus puts on his spectacles , which in fact he only needs for reading , when he needs time to think of a way out of a difficulty or the chance to seem more confident than he really is . |
| 13 | He was standing there with Mrs Kasmin as she tried to give him tea . |
| 14 | I want to wish him season 's greetings . ’ |
| 15 | If you have a healthy respect for your opponent , you will thrust forwards on a diagonal line that takes you out of his centre-line , before twisting to face him square-on . |
| 16 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 17 | His voice seemed to draw her to him , making her want to tell him things that she 'd told no one . |
| 18 | The trainer intends to give the eight-year-old , who is likely to be ridden by Richard Dunwoody in the Hennessy , a gallop at Newbury racecourse to put him spot-on . |
| 19 | He was taken away from his home on the night of 29 March by a man who reportedly came to give him information about his two ‘ disappeared ’ sons . |
| 20 | In any case , in the old days , no Iranian ever came to give him advice . |
| 21 | I know when Brian went on the first Queen tour to America he hated it , so he had stabilisers made to give him 220v . |
| 22 | ‘ So I 've decided to give him Araminta , after all . |
| 23 | He sued to love the sun and it seemed to give him life but now as they drag his limp body into the sun they realise that nothing will wake him , not even the sun . |
| 24 | The sight of Celia and Brassard seemed to give him courage . |
| 25 | Just having David there seemed to give him confidence and Nick showed signs of playing really well . |
| 26 | Lucie laid his hand against Gabriel 's cheek ; it seemed to cost him effort to lift his arm , because a sweat broke out on his top lip . |
| 27 | A bitter wind form the Elburz Mountains sweeps around two 707s parked in front of the low , white , thickly carpeted Imperial Pavilion where , in happier days , the Shah of Iran welcomed or bade farewell to the monarchs and statesmen who came to pay him court , nurture his ambitions and ask for alliances , money or other tokens of his kingship . |
| 28 | While not thinking it fitting to ask him questions about Ven , however , Fabia was wary of asking more than surface polite questions of Lubor himself . |
| 29 | Today , while Maudie was filling a grocery order to the delivered by hand , he had decided to amuse him self by trying to clamber up the shelves , and succeeded in pulling down several tins of treacle . |
| 30 | The words seemed to make him smile , but there was no cruelty in it . |