Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | I honour him as a ‘ bridge ’ between two ancient cultures — East and West — at a time when such positive influences are much needed . |
2 | ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person . |
3 | ’ I like him as a fellow . |
4 | I refer him to a pamphlet that was published in the mid-1980s by an obscure group of Back-Bench MPs called the No Turning Back group . |
5 | ‘ I remember him from a long time ago . |
6 | I feed him on a diet of mixed fish , with the odd goldfish ( the diet suggested by the fishkeeper ) . |
7 | We work well together , I respect him as a professional , I can laugh at his jokes and I can even accept that his genius probably entitles him to live by a set of standards most of us do n't even recognise as standards — but that 's it ! ’ |
8 | Then he added as Ronni responded with a scowl — do n't say Guido had been right yet again ! — ‘ But , more importantly , I stay with him because I respect him as a seaman . |
9 | The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’ |
10 | In view of the fact that , like you , I regard him as a fluent liar and consummate actor , I think not . |
11 | " I regard him as a friend , and you remember that apart from all this local colour , I gave you tile specifications of his boat . " |
12 | I think it 's a very wonderful thing I mean I regard him as a warmonger World War Two by his eighteen month should have been |
13 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
14 | I thank him with a glance and push it a little closer to her . |
15 | I thank him for a speedy and compassionate response . |
16 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
17 | With my best caricature British accent I reduce him to a fit of stifled giggles . |
18 | I see him as a servile little bugger ! |
19 | I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school . |
20 | I thought he played well against England last week and I see him as a valuable member of our squad . ’ |
21 | I see him in a white coat . |
22 | First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates . |
23 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
24 | No it 's probably er a reaction like you do if you tickle him in a certain place they go do n't they ? |
25 | You see a name come up on the leaderboard , then it might disappear and you think to yourself , ‘ I wonder what happened to him ? ’ , and you forget him after a while . |
26 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
27 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
28 | There are those who accept him as a subverter of meanings , including his own , an anti-philosopher , a disconcerting jester , gleefully overturning accepted habits of thought . |
29 | You spell him with a capital M , as in Murray ; to me he is very lower case . |
30 | Gerald Kaufman is another who will hesitate to play the sporting card , although there are those who remember him as a midfield dynamo , eternally squabbling with the referee and being booked for ‘ violence of the tongue ’ , an offence which he is said to have invented . |