Example sentences of "[vb infin] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says modestly that he ‘ got into rather an idle way ’ , but Wordsworth 's way of ‘ idling ’ offers little comfort to those who might consider him as a precedent for their own incapacity . |
| 2 | She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds . |
| 3 | Housman might not readily recognise him as a Shropshire Lad . |
| 4 | His description was circulated to all police forces throughout Britain , and a number of anxious relatives visited the mortuary to see if they could recognise him as a missing husband , brother or son , but no one did . |
| 5 | It was quite common for an affluent client to insist : " I 'm only interested in BES schemes , although a skilful dealer would tempt him into a short-term punt in a stock outside the BES . |
| 6 | You can trust him with a lady anywhere . ’ |
| 7 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 8 | I would n't trust him with a play like Amadeus , playing a part like Salieri , if I did n't have belief in his talent . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 10 | I 'm sure we could tie him into a couple of torso cases and a bullion robbery . |
| 11 | Made him promise never to eat again or we 'd tie him to a tombstone . |
| 12 | But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney . |
| 13 | And , I 've gone out , it was n't that was hacking my fence mind , erm , it was another boy , I did n't know him with a , and I went out and I , I and he said , I was n't . |
| 14 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 15 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 16 | While he returned from that campaign with greater maturity , even his best friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition . |
| 17 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 18 | Buddhists who 've seen him describe him as a 6ft 4in tall man with big limbs and hands . |
| 19 | At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency . |
| 20 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 21 | I should describe him as an innocent . |
| 22 | If he came back , to spread the word , no doubt they would hang him like a felon . |
| 23 | " endeavour to find out a person both to answer to their expectation and those of the Town , and … to superintend and assist him for a while . " |
| 24 | She could more easily picture him in a Maserati . |
| 25 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |
| 26 | Well here 's one man who is very definitely erm upside down about the whole thing , if I can just er tip him over a little bit there , could you , no I 'll try that one again will I |
| 27 | At this point some vainglorious politician would step forward and present him with a book such as this one . |
| 28 | They will present him with an upbeat report claiming significant improvements in performance , with all lines beating Passengers ' Charter standards for timekeeping and reliability . |
| 29 | Were n't you saying in the tent only yesterday : " When Charles has been beaten and stripped of his weapons , I 'll personally tonsure him as a cleric and take him back to Ravenna " ? |
| 30 | Fifteen years later a man of 76 , thinking he would like to try satellite television , collected the requisite number of newspaper coupons which would entitle him to a 30-day trial of a satellite dish . |