Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prosecutors must determine if they want to continue to harry him . |
| 2 | I actually thought it was a REALLY good move buying him , but now … well , I say say bin him , and go for broke and get Ferdinand ( f*** the bank balance ! ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I recall going to see him one morning in the mid-70s after a newspaper suggested Liverpool were ready to pay Boro 200,000 for me . |
| 4 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 5 | Comrade Huang is an older man whose general good sense and responsible outlook seem to have caused him to be regarded as a leader by the others ; Comrade Liu is a younger woman , who went to Colchester 3 years ago to study English , and whose father , it turns out , was also a university teacher of English — he studied at Edinburgh in 1947–8 . |
| 6 | Though the flippant Mr Ratner has said similar things in private before , the strident headlines produced by his speech seem to have shaken him . |
| 7 | Nor , said Lewis , will he become complacent through the sudden adulation of a public that seem to have crowned him champion already . |
| 8 | Certainly his years with the Moors seem to have changed him , softening without blunting his warlike character . |
| 9 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 10 | Mercator 's contemporaries seem to have found him brilliant but difficult . |
| 11 | The Jacobites now threatened to bombard Carlisle if the castle did not surrender , causing the remaining militia , on 15 November , to desert , leaving Durand with only the ‘ invalids ’ to form the garrison , while the civil authorities , horrified at the threat to the town , seem to have encouraged him to capitulate . |
| 12 | and erm , if he goes yeah , really , well you know , you know that phoning peo your girl friends or whatever right , you know try to make him phone me |
| 13 | So you try to go to visit him , or him come over here ? |
| 14 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 15 | It'd 've served him right for being such a spaced-out hippy . |
| 16 | What I keep trying to tell him is that if you do something like this , this space underneath has to be at least as much between the top of the S as the and the baseline and they sell them . |
| 17 | ‘ We like to think that the programme is n't in competition with Barry Norman , but we do want to give him a run for his money . ’ |
| 18 | I really do want to see him . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ After all , he 's Tom 's son and I do want to see him again . |
| 20 | My pity wins , and I do want to help him . |
| 21 | If you bend and twist to try to accommodate him , you will end up like a pretzel , and your behaviour will be every bit as neurotic as his . |
| 22 | If you do manage to get him to go , there is drug treatment that could help . |
| 23 | I 've arranged to pick him up . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've come to join him up , ’ said Tom indicating Willie . |
| 25 | I 've come to get him out . ’ |
| 26 | He 's on the case and , from his actions so far , I have to say I 've come to trust him . |
| 27 | I 've come to make him known to you . |
| 28 | ‘ So I 've come to introduce him . |
| 29 | I 've decided to ask him about his lymphoma , perhaps after the tea-break . |
| 30 | ‘ So I 've decided to give him Araminta , after all . |