Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to see him take the ball from them , and the strikers , so that he can look to score goals like he did in Wednesday 's game with Turkey . ’ |
| 2 | And the midfielder is also bidding to continue a scoring streak that has seen him hit the target in his last four League matches . |
| 3 | But now , as in all good rehabilitated hellraiser stories , the only coke he touches comes from a bottle and he has a wife , Becky , who has helped him overcome the demon drink and restored him to his former hunky self . |
| 4 | ‘ Patrick McGoohan , who wrote the series , was looking for a car to use and Lotus tried to persuade him to use the Elan , ’ says Graham Nearn , managing director of Caterham Cars , which still makes the Seven today . |
| 5 | If you go back to the time United Biscuits felt they had to close their Liverpool factory , the bishops up in Liverpool marched on Hector Laing and tried to persuade him to put the decision off . |
| 6 | The next time he went to church she waylaid him after the evening service , and tried to persuade him to enter the hall , where — as he had guessed — a cup of tea was about to be made . |
| 7 | Author Mik Chinery runs a powerboat school and has been involved in the incorporation of electronic navigation in RYA courses , a background which has enabled him to explain the principles and application of this still relatively new field . |
| 8 | At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years . |
| 9 | Kasparov said he had been negotiating with the FIDE president , Florencio Campomanes , for several days to try to persuade him to transfer the federation 's rights to stage the championship to the PCA and make Manchester a ‘ transitionary ’ match . |
| 10 | ‘ Is The Pussy Still Good ’ recounts the familiar story of running into an old boyfriend who was a prick , but you still want to fuck him cause the sex was so great . |
| 11 | Canadian Professor David Gaskin 's 20-year involvement with harbour porpoise has led him to examine the conflict between gill-net and small cetacean worldwide . |
| 12 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 13 | ‘ He tells me she has nagged him to do the housework . |
| 14 | It was the first time they 'd heard him admit the Store was built by humans . |
| 15 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | In case you missed Pete with his head in the clouds today , you can expect to see him topping the bill at air shows throughout the summer . |
| 17 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 18 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 19 | ‘ Everybody needs a base , ’ she had returned lightly , refusing to let him dull the excitement she had felt ever since finding the farmhouse . |
| 20 | Certainly he believed that his inner feeling of being most alive , most engaged with real issues , in his contemplative experience , was a gift from God and that his whole integrity depended on his furthering a life-style which he believed enabled him to receive the gift , however strong the opposition he encountered : Above all else I have always longed to sit and concentrate on Christ , and him alone … |
| 21 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
| 22 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 23 | He struggled to his knees , but the menace of the leering faces surrounding rounding him drained the strength from his limbs , so that when he tried to draw the bow across the strings the result was a tuneless scratch . |
| 24 | Erm that was er Steve from the Youth Centre because we 've just er told him how much it 's going to cost him to use the school premises next year , and he 's thrown a dickey fit . |
| 25 | Patrick realised that this was SOCO 's way of recognising that he was persona grata and was going to allow him to enter the murder room . |
| 26 | And how , come to think of it , was Henry going to get him to absorb the stuff , short of creeping up on him while he was asleep and forcing it down his throat or up his arse ? |
| 27 | We 've got to stop him leaving the country . ’ |
| 28 | One may imagine that bishops would rush to ordain him to make the point . |
| 29 | If we are dealing with a regression to what may be a former lifetime , then , having asked the patient to go back to a period with which his subconscious mind feels comfortable , I like to help him to create the picture of his former personality little by little . |
| 30 | You know if you can get him to say , you know tell him to forget the rai the rainforest for a , you know , for a while and think about his own family . |