Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want him to go south immediately , to Godstowe . |
| 2 | " I only want him to give way a little . |
| 3 | I want him to score goals as well , i.e like Chappy. firsts and he 'll come good . |
| 4 | They want him to have injections every month — I do n't know if they help or not — but he says they slow him up and make his legs ache and he ca n't think straight . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to put extra pressure on him now though , I just want him to keep things going as they are . ’ |
| 6 | He added : ‘ England 's powers that be , in conjunction with Alec , must decide a definite policy if they want him to keep wicket . ’ |
| 7 | John Allen became the most well-informed person in the country about what was going on , for the new Minister of the Arts , Jenny Lee , invited him to survey drama in schools and colleges . |
| 8 | Hypocrisy of this kind derives from the agent 's conscience telling him of his evil , while his desire not to appear evil causes him to feign goodness . |
| 9 | His deep love of music moved him to take lessons with Dr Hiles , ( later Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music ) and the young Tiller showed an early flair by winning prizes for harmony while studying under him . |
| 10 | Everything in Anselm 's life during the past thirty years had predisposed him to regard obedience as a fundamental rule of conduct for himself and others . |
| 11 | I remember being glad that my father had a job which did not need him to climb ladders . |
| 12 | An eventful match for the recalled David Gower say him become England 's most-capped player and , with this boundary off Aqib , England 's highest runscorer , surpassing Geoff Boycott 's old record |
| 13 | I ca n't argue with this , but I urge him to include driving lessons in his New Year 's resolutions . |
| 14 | ‘ His family are also desperate to hear from him again and urge him to make contact with them . ’ |
| 15 | I should have reminded him to ring Mum . ’ |
| 16 | Given Shakespeare 's unlimited verbal energies it is no surprise to find him culling ingenuity from this idea of giving and receiving , as in the dazzling wit of 24 : ( I have italicized his in line 5 since it refers to the Poet ; his in line 8 since it refers to his bosom ; and They in line 14 as referring to his eyes . ) |
| 17 | The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million . |
| 18 | The skald Thorleif Rauthfeldarson has him bloodying swords in England with God 's help , and he was eventually buried , perhaps first in York Minster , but later in a church at Roskilde , according to the Encomiast in a tomb which he had prepared himself . |
| 19 | ‘ First thing : you ca n't just haul off and smack a dog in the snout and expect him to turn tail and run away . ’ |
| 20 | I am touched by his childlike affection and I half expect him to call Perry ‘ Uncle ’ . |
| 21 | In August of 1157 Barbarossa invaded Poland to resolve troublesome territorial arguments ; and the following month found him holding court at Besançon , one of the imperial centres established by his predecessor Charlemagne . |
| 22 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 23 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 24 | That afternoon , when she found him giving Huw Pritchard a boxing-lesson , she caught a glimpse of the old Connor — the man she loved , the man she had married . |
| 25 | Perdita , not in the best mood after a cold shower , found him having breakfast . |
| 26 | I said I 'd remember that if ever I found him dangling upside down by one toe from a ski-lift cable . |
| 27 | We first found him sitting bolt upright , dressed immaculately in a white safari-suit , eating gado-gado — a delicious local vegetable dish with a spicy peanut sauce — at one of the tiny mobile eateries near the market . |
| 28 | Or else he 'd catch him shoplifting books , or catch Gina down the supermarket . |
| 29 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
| 30 | The same officer who had let him say goodbye to his friend Boris , but she did n't tell him that . |