Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although one of them tried to get him to America .
2 Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case .
3 I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face .
4 I intend to introduce him to the Führer at that meeting , General .
5 I got to give him to you hold it
6 Finally I got to ask him about Claude Rains .
7 But then I tried to seduce him with poetry .
8 I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much .
9 I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics .
10 I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest .
11 I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't .
12 I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss .
13 I tried to picture him under the sheet .
14 Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there .
15 I tried to shame him into giving some away .
16 I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique .
17 Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life .
18 I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go .
19 I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London .
20 I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight .
21 ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’
22 Cos I , I want to send him into the shed because I had him first
23 He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’
24 On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat .
25 One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart .
26 I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone .
27 Pop having to return to Burma for another year with the Governor , and finally my going to meet him in Liverpool when he was sent home at the end of that year very sick , never to return to Burma .
28 I like to compare him with a footballing genius , putting through passes others are too slow to take , and making moves that would be brilliant if only the rules were different .
29 I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light .
30 I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire .
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