Example sentences of "[vb base] he [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 35 per cent of all voters want him to do a deal with the Liberal Democrats , including a pledge for electoral reform . |
| 2 | I want him to do an M S two or three . |
| 3 | ‘ I want him to reach the stage where he will be talked about for his golf and not for his petulance — we 've had enough . |
| 4 | books for Alex and I want to help him and I want him to have an advantage , but I do n't want it to cause problems at school |
| 5 | They want him to have the best possible educational start , and they see children elsewhere , like Emma , getting a whole year 's schooling more than Sam . |
| 6 | The young composer at odds with his family , who want him to follow a less daring course . |
| 7 | I want him to buy a car but |
| 8 | On the one hand , two fans from a papermill implore him to become a dissident figurehead : on the other hand , two state policmen want him to sign a document denying authorship of the original article . |
| 9 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 10 | Secondly , I urge him to make the best possible speed in this matter because for many of us it represents the most dreadful stain on our criminal justice system . |
| 11 | I urge him to read the newspapers that come through my door in Billericay . |
| 12 | I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all . |
| 13 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 14 | Send a man into the field only half-armed with the facts and expect him to do a professional job . |
| 15 | Philip Giles fell more than thirty feet onto a hillside while on holdiay in California but doctors expect him to make a full recovery . |
| 16 | We do n't believe he was infectious before May 21 and we expect him to make a complete recovery . |
| 17 | Well I expect him to pay the insurance . |
| 18 | Make contact with the chairman of the Uses Committee and press him to place the church in the hands of the local office of one of the national estate agents . |
| 19 | Other considerations of a public character may be present in the mind of the Secretary of State which persuade him to take a different view from the judges . |
| 20 | Louise tried to soothe him and persuade him to drink the antiseptic draught which McNab had given her . |
| 21 | Challenge him to check the full-blown consequences of his ideas to see where they lead . |
| 22 | A ruler is bound by the good old law ; if he breaks it in any serious way , his subjects can rebel , and by formal process compel him to obey the law . |
| 23 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 24 | If one quarter , in value , of the creditors request him to convene a meeting to appoint a new trustee , he must do so ( s 300(3) ) . |
| 25 | I 'm not out to if they 're going to claim on this diesel then that 's up to them but I 'm not going to have our lads or anybody else blamed for something which definitely does not exist and I shall tell as soon as I erm I meet him to have a chat with him again that he 's going along the wrong lines . |
| 26 | Get him to lick the microphone . |
| 27 | Do you : ( a ) get him to read the poetry as a voice-over and hope no one notices his accent ? ( b ) make the drippy research assistant Michell a beefy Austrian and get Arnie to wear spectacles ? ( c ) turn the whole thing into an action movie , with Arnie defending the London Library against a mass terrorist attack ? 2 The title lacks commercial appeal . |
| 28 | ( If there is a problem and the cogs still will not spin , then take them to your dealer/mechanic and get him to have a look for you . ) |
| 29 | Well all you really could do was say , well you 'll have to ask your doctor and get him to have a talk with your husband . |
| 30 | ‘ The days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline from The Sun and get him to sign an injunction , ’ Mr Todd said . |