Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everybody needs a base , ’ she had returned lightly , refusing to let him dull the excitement she had felt ever since finding the farmhouse . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Long before Quex died , however , Edward Carrington had discovered better reasons than inter-service rivalry and backstabbing to make him doubt the quality of the organization he had been so proud to join . |
| 6 | It was touching to watch him cross the road to the crowds in Downing Street yesterday to talk quietly to them . |
| 7 | Darren had been a poor feeder even in the early days and mother remembered spending hours with him trying to get him to take the bottle . |
| 8 | we were trying to get him to sell the Guinness fifty P a pint because it was Saint Patrick 's day |