Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dem drag him to de police van |
| 2 | ‘ I trust him to your charge , Father Abbot . ’ |
| 3 | It 's a promise I expect him to equal . |
| 4 | , I said , she said but I expect him to . |
| 5 | It 's a way of saying to yourself , if he really loves me , he 'll stop doing that because I want him to ’ , Roz says . |
| 6 | I want us still to go out together , I want him to be my boyfriend , I really need him to confide in , as I do n't seem to have a close girlfriend . |
| 7 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
| 8 | ‘ I want him to be happy … |
| 9 | I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard . |
| 10 | Charles and I want him to be godfather , did Charles say ? ’ |
| 11 | well I want him to , I 've had enough , I think its |
| 12 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 13 | I consider him to be an intellectual pygmy . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 15 | I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ . |
| 16 | However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ . |
| 17 | I refer him to a pamphlet that was published in the mid-1980s by an obscure group of Back-Bench MPs called the No Turning Back group . |
| 18 | He is a talented lad who shows great respect for his elders and will play in any position I tell him to . |
| 19 | If the Minister does not know the details , I direct him to the NFU survey on the Borders . |
| 20 | Reso 's widow Patricia , who went to the court , said of Seale : ‘ I believe him to be an evil person , a sick person . |
| 21 | Take the examples of these verbs suggested by Bolinger : ( 105 ) I believe him to be the man . |
| 22 | But now I think of G.P. and I compare him to Piers . |
| 23 | I feel him to be a lost soul , a good one , an excellent one , but a lost and unhappy one . |
| 24 | I invite him to be more forthcoming here and now . |
| 25 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 26 | I love him to bits but I 'm long past the stage of believing marriage is what makes a relationship real and holds it together . |
| 27 | ‘ Mark 's a darling man , I love him to bits . |
| 28 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 29 | I take him to the yard . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |