Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] him [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I make him work like a dog ! |
| 2 | I want him to return to his old life , which I consider would be much better for him . |
| 3 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 4 | I want him to shoot for every flag . |
| 5 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 6 | I might say ‘ Yes he s good and I want him to play for Leeds ’ . |
| 7 | I want him waiting by this corner . |
| 8 | I want him to want to be with me and do things . |
| 9 | ‘ I think that he is an actor of international standing and if the production is taken up I want him to stay with it . |
| 10 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 11 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 12 | And he got upset , so I ended up having to bring him downstairs , give him his lunch first and then I put him to sleep in his pram this is all since the weekend this |
| 13 | I brought him downstairs give him his dinner and then I put him to sleep in his pram in the front room , but I think that 'd also er |
| 14 | But that rotten yellow-gutted two-timing little toad " — I let him go on like that a while , to get it out of his system . |
| 15 | Usually I let him go on the . |
| 16 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 17 | I let him sleep in my room at night , and he kept me awake for hours talking about Mrs Robinson . |
| 18 | Next morning I let him sleep until midday . |
| 19 | I let him get under my guard . |
| 20 | Cos I let him play with it . |
| 21 | I let him cry for a bit and then went over to him and squatted down beside him and put my hand over his shoulders . |
| 22 | I watch him concentrate on licking the end of a little cigar . |
| 23 | But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs . |
| 24 | If I get him to go in there and do a bit of plaster on |
| 25 | ‘ I asked him what his impression was of the University and I remember him looking at me and saying : ‘ Very friendly , very prosperous and doing very well ’ . |
| 26 | I remember him waving to me one day , I thought who the bloody hell 's that ? |
| 27 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 28 | I remember him getting into bed with me . |
| 29 | I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals . |
| 30 | I remember him running into trouble for selling medicines not labelled with the appropriate Patent Medicine Stamps — a form of taxation until the mid-'thirties . |