Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] him [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 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 3 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 4 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’ |
| 7 | If you want to challenge him about anything you had better have your facts right . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 9 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 10 | If the person indicates that he has nothing more to say the officer shall without delay cease to question him about that offence . … |
| 11 | ‘ Which presumably makes me the better teacher , ’ he returned with a dryness that made her want to pummel him with her fists from sheer frustration . |
| 12 | You want to send him for dancing lessons . ’ |
| 13 | Cos I , I want to send him into the shed because I had him first |
| 14 | You can apply to my father for money if you still want to punish him for not backing you . |
| 15 | I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points . |
| 16 | If you 're having trouble with your wrestler , and want to change him during play in the survivor series , the secret is to press Select once the bout has begun . |
| 17 | You may turn into one of those driving , ambitious wives who are not glad of their husband 's contentment but want to change him into something he is not . |
| 18 | A man is under guard in hospital tonight while police wait to question him about the killing of one of his wife 's friends . |
| 19 | As the novel progresses , the central consciousness is increasingly alienated from the institutions which seek to maintain him under their control , and his own discourse becomes more and more transgressive . |
| 20 | Since Caliban is often performed in the modern theatre as if he were a later version of Thersites , we tend to expect him to be a prose-speaker . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When this happens , we begin to enjoy him for himself , present within us . |
| 23 | Well I said to him only last week , I said wonder where Trevor is these days , have n't seem to see him in here , but er |
| 24 | I never seem to see him around the pub these days . ’ |
| 25 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 26 | In this sacrament I meet the risen Christ ; I feed on him and rely on his promise that , as the people of God meet to recall him in his death and passion , so we are able to take the elements and say ‘ This is my body … |
| 27 | In our personal encounter with Christ , we begin to distinguish how we have naturally tried to please him , instead of allowing his love to enter our hearts so that we begin to love him with his gift of love to us . |
| 28 | Sometimes Papert 's writings and his enthusiasm for changing the structure of education seem to place him in affinity with such educational radicals as Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer , but this is misleading . |
| 29 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 30 | There was no sign of infection , nor even scar to remind him of the accident . |