Example sentences of "we [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather .
2 We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather . ’
3 I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire
4 Nellee was in Bristol with The Wild Bunch , we met him in ‘ 86 .
5 You will remember that we met him in the last commercial .
6 ‘ Well , we met him in Australia , and Sarah went away with him .
7 We sold him for £100,000 to race in America and bought him back for £25,000 when he did nothing over there .
8 Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more .
9 ‘ I was out with my boyfriend and we passed him in Albert Terrace . ’
10 To make conversation now , we asked him about Asyut .
11 ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display .
12 We asked him for news about our situation but as usual there was nothing he could , or would , tell us .
13 We asked him for general news .
14 We asked him to our wedding , ’ James said .
15 Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’
16 It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round .
17 He had his bloody he had his cushion and he had his bloody , you know that one how we got him with his head on his cushion like that ?
18 By the time we got him to his box it was obvious he was badly hurt .
19 ‘ As soon as we got him to a doctor — which took some time — it was discovered that Major Maxim must have held the ammonia under our man 's nose while pouring some odourless spirit — quite possibly strong vodka — onto the blindfold in order to produce the stinging sensation . ’
20 ‘ When we dragged Cpl Edwards out of his seat the back of his head had been blown off — but I still thought he would be OK when we got him to hospital .
21 ‘ To buy a player of Kevin 's experience would cost a fortune but we got him for free .
22 I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK .
23 Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic .
24 ‘ I hope Elizabeth does n't think we got him like that , ’ worried Betty .
25 We got him from the RSPCA and he is my first dog .
26 We got him from the Dogs ’ Home and he 's never been very obedient . ’
27 we got him from the rescue , animal rescue you know
28 We laid him in his coffin on the spare-room bed .
29 But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape .
30 His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue .
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