Example sentences of "[vb base] him [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 3 | I want him to return to his old life , which I consider would be much better for him . |
| 4 | I want him to shoot for every flag . |
| 5 | See , if you want him to stop in it , you got ta keep paying the forfeit all the time th them weeks that go by . |
| 6 | I want him to want to be with me and do things . |
| 7 | I might say ‘ Yes he s good and I want him to play for Leeds ’ . |
| 8 | but there 's an organ is Sussex they want him to look at and erm so he said well send me a photograph er they 've got a photograph of it you see |
| 9 | ‘ I think that he is an actor of international standing and if the production is taken up I want him to stay with it . |
| 10 | The traveller , we now discover , is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach . |
| 11 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 12 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 13 | Many expect him to emerge from the rubble as the undisputed leader of the French greens . |
| 14 | Expect him to pay for all our needs , solve all our little problems — ’ |
| 15 | It 's a cruel thing and especially to hit a boy on his right hand and then expect him to write with it . |
| 16 | Cromwell commissioned Stephen Vaughan , one of the English envoys in the Low Countries , to seek out Tyndale and persuade him to return to England , hoping perhaps to enlist his pen in support of the new policies . |
| 17 | NIGEL MANSELL confirmed last night that he is aware of moves to buy him out of his Indy Car racing contract and sensationally persuade him to stay in Formula One next year . |
| 18 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 19 | And he got upset , so I ended up having to bring him downstairs , give him his lunch first and then I put him to sleep in his pram this is all since the weekend this |
| 20 | I brought him downstairs give him his dinner and then I put him to sleep in his pram in the front room , but I think that 'd also er |
| 21 | ‘ Under normal circumstances , ’ said Charles gently , ‘ you 'd go to your agent and get him to complain to the management . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll finish his bed and get him to lie on his side to make it easy for thee . |
| 23 | So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass . |
| 24 | If I get him to go in there and do a bit of plaster on |
| 25 | Now perhaps you would like to go to your GP in the normal way and get him to deal with your throat . ’ |
| 26 | Deny him that satisfaction — get him to listen to you instead . |
| 27 | Get him to come to you here . |
| 28 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |
| 29 | He 'll either have to off the lad or get him to work for him . |
| 30 | ‘ It sounds reasonable , tell him to arrange for his solicitor to be here in the morning . ’ |