Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do we want to see him hammer nails up his nostrils ? |
| 2 | This smacks of an orchestrated campaign by those who are opposed to his policies and would like to do him dirt . ’ |
| 3 | I would have thought , that after Sir Edward 's meeting , or Ted , I kno I do n't like to call him Ted , I know you know him intimately , David , so you can call him Ted , I 'll call him Sir Edward , but after Sir Edward 's meeting with Tariq Aziz , surely that was enough , was n't it ? |
| 4 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 5 | At the moment he 's under control , but I do n't want to give him time to try going over my head . ’ |
| 6 | ’ We 'll have to help him escape . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ His heart 's in the right place but he 's a bit mixed up so we 'll have to give him time . ’ |
| 8 | The last I remember thinking was that Syl should marry my mother , his contemporary , and that then perhaps I would have to call him Daddy . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you 'll have to make him notice . |
| 10 | It 's not as though I ca n't afford to pay him market price and more . |
| 11 | oh , is that what Mr said , I 'm not stopping you asking this witness at all , I do n't want , you mention the brochures and I do n't want to ask him questions , the kind I want to ask , er , with which they 're not asked by Counsel , I should n't ask at this stage anyway , but by all means ask Mr about it , I just thought Mr said , when I tried , asked him about it , very understandably , Mr the man , cos you are totally free to ask about it of course |
| 12 | I , I 'd love to see him play football . |
| 13 | She had n't known if it had been changed — it was unlikely — but if nothing else it would help to gain him admittance . |