Example sentences of "you [vb base] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to challenge him about anything you had better have your facts right . |
| 2 | You want to send him for dancing lessons . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I told you , Niall 's not the tyrant you seem to take him for . ’ |
| 4 | But I 'm quite sure his earlier associations within the family , er you know helped him in er in his endeavour to become a county councillor after the er after the second world war . |
| 5 | Knowing that this particular subordinate is sensitive to criticism , you decide to reprimand him in the open-plan office where many of his colleagues at neighbouring desks will hear what is going on . |
| 6 | His breathing is laboured in that heavy way which so often heralds the end , and as you grip his hand to let him know that he is not alone , you try to love him as the Lord himself would do . |
| 7 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 8 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 9 | You 've , you 've missed him by about two bloody minutes basically , oh , okay then mate , no problem , cheers . |
| 10 | You 've wangled him into dinner tonight , but of his own accord he would have gone straight off … to … to Marise , probably . ’ |
| 11 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 12 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 14 | You 've told him about this |
| 15 | ‘ You have n't even met him yet and already you 've put him behind bars for life . ’ |
| 16 | No doubt you wish to pat him on the head for this . |
| 17 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 18 | If a horse is being naughty then you have to punish him in some way — but do n't punish him if he does n't understand or is physically incapable of doing what you 've asked . ’ |
| 19 | If the patient has to get dressed before he is able to dress independently , you have to dress him with care , so that he does not get involved in making any effort . |
| 20 | ‘ Now you have touched him on the raw . |
| 21 | You have seen him in the space of one half-hour |
| 22 | ‘ You never know a guy until you have tried him in bed . |
| 23 | I do n't mean that you have to imagine him as your lover or prospective lover ; this story does not require such strict identification , and I do n't see that any story does . |
| 24 | Is God really as good as you have trusted him to be ? |
| 25 | You have to expose him to the temptation , do n't you ? |
| 26 | ‘ You have left him with her , I collect ? |
| 27 | But when you have equipped him with a wife — why , it will be in his interest to kill you ! ’ |