Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know you should 've perhaps questioned him , you know what 's his minimum what , you know , what could he how , how important is his future . |
| 2 | People would gang together to destroy him . |
| 3 | Leopold made Stockmar promise never to leave him after his wife , Princess Charlotte , died in childbirth in 1817 at Claremont near Windsor . |
| 4 | Cos he said oh I should 've just hit him there and then and I said yeah instead of fucking hanging about and pissing your mates off , you know what I mean ? |
| 5 | I think we 're just gon na have to let him moan I would n't mind , but until last weekend , he never give a dickie bird about going to sleep I think it was that came in and set him off she should 've just left him on to it instead of trying to do it herself |
| 6 | I do n't want ever to see him . |
| 7 | He shows such a deep respect for divine services that he honours with seemly silence every hour in which psalms are sung to God , nor does anyone dare meanwhile to trouble him with matters of state . |
| 8 | He wished he had been able to act as unaffectedly , but some reluctance that he could never understand always held him back . |
| 9 | Pamela saw Jan lean forward to kiss him , a look of love lighting up her eyes . |
| 10 | Frankly , if you considered the proposition out of the question you would have politely put him off long ago . |
| 11 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 12 | It did n't take long to tell him my story . |
| 13 | His silence and inertia would have only made him more lifelike and I would , at once , have been treated as ‘ one of the girls ’ . |
| 14 | So next time you catch up at the lights with the smug so and so who was stuck to your bumper a mile back , with all the understanding you can muster just remind him that : ‘ There , there dear , size is n't everything you know . ’ |
| 15 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 16 | You must have just missed him . ’ |
| 17 | Knowledge of him was so slim that the magazine Private Eye even suggested mischievously that the Department of Energy computer might have mistakenly selected him instead of another man of the same name . |
| 18 | At eighteen , he decides that some freakish wind must have mistakenly transplanted him to France : he was born , he declares , to be Emperor of Cochin-China , to smoke 36-fathom pipes , to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 catamites ; but instead , displaced by this meteorological hazard , he is left with immense , insatiable desires , fierce boredom , and an attack of the yawns . |
| 19 | I asked Garth , quintessentially English , what could have possibly drawn him to America . |
| 20 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |
| 21 | The long birdie putt Beck had earlier holed for an eagle three at the 13th had been a turning point , but for Norman , who does not normally play the week before the Masters , this must have also given him encouragement . |
| 22 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 23 | In this instance the foul play was the deliberate knock-down , and Derek had to be sure that Rory would have caught the ball and that no Australian would have legally prevented him scoring a try . |
| 24 | You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces . |
| 25 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 26 | He had been so close she could have almost touched him . |
| 27 | In newsomes situation I would have maybe challenged him before he got to the box and maybe given a foul away in the process . |
| 28 | Yesterday , she would have casually killed him . |
| 29 | They 'd have certainly nicked him . |
| 30 | If Mike had even got a bit on me I said I 'd have bloody killed him ! |