Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I long to see him become a Giant . |
| 2 | ‘ I say let him have it ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | It 's partly because I 'm so lonely , it 's partly deliberate ( I want to make him relax , both for his own good and so that one day he may make a mistake ) , so it 's part weakness , and part cunning , and part charity . |
| 5 | ‘ I like hearing him talk , about everything , the war , the League , the future of Italy . ’ |
| 6 | I catch a piercing look I 've seen him give other guys ; Gregory , when he would n't jump a six-foot gap on the fourteenth storey ; Nick , when we learned about his drinking . |
| 7 | I 've seen him like this before , before you were born , when he cracked his ankle the week before the final trial . |
| 8 | I 've seen him like this in the library — grim as hell one minute , chortling the next . ’ |
| 9 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 10 | And look at the twenty year-old Blues Saraceno featured in this very issue ; I 've seen him play and he 's tremendous . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've seen him play and liked what I saw . |
| 12 | I 've seen him play . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've seen him play often enough to know that he will do a good job for us . ’ |
| 14 | I 've seen him play over the years er Mick , you know he 's er typical of player , we 've had him watched a few times this year , er scouts him er at Aston Villa , said he had a magnificent game . |
| 15 | I 've seen him get pretty bad-tempered with people . |
| 16 | I do n't think I 've heard him speak before , he s got a great Yorkshire accent for a Welsh lad . |
| 17 | I 've heard him say how he went to sea and he done two voyages . |
| 18 | and I 've heard him say oh can I go and play with such a boy , he said he likes going to Kirsty , Kirsty and Hannah and Kirsty and Graham he 's quite fond of them too and Adam |
| 19 | I 've heard him say Deana and Stacey |
| 20 | Cos I 've heard him say , Thee . |
| 21 | I 've heard him play Liszt 's Campanello with teaspoons , without leaving out a single note . |
| 22 | Now I 've made him blush ! ’ she laughed . |
| 23 | I 've let him go pending further enquiries — he set his solicitor on me . |
| 24 | ‘ I have heard him say something similar . |
| 25 | But erm , the Chief Constable himself , and I have heard him say this , has no confidence that the paperwork will be reduced and that any er , more constables will be seen on the beat . |
| 26 | he wo n't fly singles over water , at night , or over dubious terrain , though I have seen him fly over the odd potato field ! |
| 27 | ‘ I have seen him play a little bit more to the net than normally , but I would say that he has much more confidence staying back and playing long rallies . |
| 28 | ‘ He has a problem because I have seen him play more often than he has seen me ! ’ |
| 29 | I gave him a fair price for it , and I have let him carry on trading in smack . ’ |
| 30 | There are certain files I refuse to let him see . |