Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're having trouble with your wrestler , and want to change him during play in the survivor series , the secret is to press Select once the bout has begun . |
| 2 | All she could do was twine her arms round him and try to anchor him by her weight against the still-shuddering rubble , so that at least their backs were protected . |
| 3 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 4 | Encourage the patient to do the types of activities recommended for him , and try to prevent him from sitting idly , or gazing at the television . |
| 5 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 6 | I roll off my own bank , and try to follow him with the pipper . |
| 7 | He was afraid she might see him sticking out and start taking him for granted or make unwomanly advances . |
| 8 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 9 | But his mind was quick , and his memories were all intact ; and the longing never really went away , that awful persistent longing that could find outlet only in frustration and anger , and a wish to do bad things ; to hurt and to insult like he did now while he waited for David to concede defeat and agree to take him to the auction after all . |
| 10 | Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them . |
| 11 | There he attempted to persuade the counts Ramon and Berenguer to aid him in taking Saragossa , a key fortress which King Ferdinand had long sought to bring under his sway . |
| 12 | According to the Men 's Movement , second only to the father is the older male who will help teach a young man what it means to be a man and help remove him from his father 's influence . |
| 13 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 14 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 15 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 16 | You may turn into one of those driving , ambitious wives who are not glad of their husband 's contentment but want to change him into something he is not . |