Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1	But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school .
2	He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort .
3	His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled .
4	Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more .
5	But I thought it would do Roy a power of good to give him a few games at the back as part of his education . ’
6	I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank .
7	He might find it useful having an old man like me around to give him a few tips on how to manage horses . ’
8	Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled .
9	Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’
10	The screen shivered and cleared as he cut off , which allowed me to offer him a few choice epithets that he could n't hear .
11	‘ I only wanted to ask him a few questions . ’
12	He continued to urge Canterbury 's supremacy over York , and in the general settlement of 1107 , Archbishop Gerard promised at last to show him the same obedience as archbishop as he had owed as bishop of Hereford .
13	To make him no more than animal is to make him less than man in God 's likeness .
14	Austen Chamberlain had been trained to be a conventional statesman ; Rugby , Cambridge and a determination to live down his father 's reputation had all combined to make him the most conformist of politicians .

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