Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just could n't believe it , it was , er , I just felt very very happy and I just break into tears , I just start crying , and I think it 's tremendous , erm news , I just want to see him safe home . |
| 2 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 3 | She had expected to meet him one day , but never like this . |
| 4 | The enclosed experiments will , I doubt not , excuse this my freedom in endeavouring to give him this opportunity of becoming acquainted with you . |
| 5 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 6 | You 'd better warn him that I 'll expect to see him some time tomorrow , if he does n't feel up to an interview this evening , that is ! ’ |
| 7 | I say I am bored , and that I hope to see him that evening . |
| 8 | The weight of Garvey on his narrow , bony shoulders , combined with the close fit of the donkey-head , seemed to cause him some distress , because he suddenly reeled up against a wall and snatched off the head . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , except that while I was pulling Harry along to that far corner to give him better support , someone opened the main door above our heads , like I told you , and then went away without saying anything , and I heard a car drive off , which might have been Harry 's . ’ |
| 10 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 11 | Kate quickly shrugged it off herself , not wanting to give him any chance of coming near her . |
| 12 | The ISPA plans to pay him this money later in the week but is also to discipline him . |
| 13 | ‘ I recall going to see him one morning in the mid-70s after a newspaper suggested Liverpool were ready to pay Boro 200,000 for me . |
| 14 | ‘ I know where he 's staying and I 'm going to tackle him this evening . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to buy him some flower seeds , ’ said Dot . |
| 16 | Meaning that , if he had n't managed to earn respect during his lifetime , no amount afterwards was going to do him any good . |
| 17 | Well I was going to put him some dinner out and he 'll have to heat it up again I think . |
| 18 | You should n't do this , this is unfair reporting why ca n't you realize to leave him alone mate . |
| 19 | Egan had promised to do him this service . |
| 20 | You 've got to give him some sort of motivation . |
| 21 | ‘ Someone forgot to release him last night , ’ one of them shouted . |
| 22 | The appellant , if he believed that Mr. Occhi , knowing that £7 was far in excess of the legal fare , had nevertheless agreed to pay him that sum , could not be said to have acted dishonestly in taking it . |
| 23 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 24 | Edward retreated to Brussels , but in the winter of 1339–40 he achieved an important diplomatic success in Flanders when he persuaded James van Artevelde to enter into an alliance with him under which Artevelde recognized his title to the French throne and agreed to give him military aid . |
| 25 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 26 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 27 | He was older , seventy , and his legs began to give him such pain . |
| 28 | Teena had phoned her husband , warning him police would be coming to see him that night . |
| 29 | ‘ Yesterday probably because the photos were n't in the house when I called to see him last night . |
| 30 | She really would have to see him some time . |