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

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1 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 .
2 If , now , we place him in the pantheon of Afro-Asian leaders who decisively influenced the course of events it is because he was a survivor , to whom the drama of revolutionary struggle was an end in itself .
3 Now we place him in a house .
4 We send him on a B S five four double O course .
5 ‘ It will take him six weeks to recover so we expect him to be out of action for longer than that , ’ the spokesman added .
6 ‘ It will take him six weeks to recover so we expect him to be out of action for longer than that , ’ the spokesman added .
7 ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be .
8 We want him to be returning to a club which is guaranteed European football next season and , who knows , should we win the semi-final he might be able to lead out the team for the final . ’
9 We want him to be able to concentrate on the Tests from here on . ’
10 We want him for a month on loan to give him a proper chance . ’
11 Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him .
12 Either we grab 'im by the beard — ’
13 ‘ He 's got party tricks like shaking hands , and when we walk him to the shops on a lead he loves being cuddled by children and old people .
14 There are apparently further charges to be put to him your worship the charge of theft and we charge him with handling stolen property .
15 When he does , we await him in force , with say , a dozen grenadiers , and make the arrest . ’
16 When we brought him here , we put him under an anaesthetic and then cut the wire down here . ’
17 We put him in a tent but he found the sensation of being , as he put it , sealed up so distressing that the idea had to be abandoned .
18 ‘ As a pup he was always asleep , so one day we put him in a pair of pyjamas and started calling him PJ .
19 We put him in a pen at a secret location within Milton keynes , and then it was a matter of leaving him alone , and thankfully this fox has adjusted to the wild .
20 From his letters and his wife 's memoirs we picture him in cheap cafés hunched up in his greatcoat over a cup of coffee , with Russian and European newspapers spread about him .
21 We seek him in prayer .
22 We watch him like you watch a dog crapping on the pavement .
23 ‘ There is every reason to remember George Bush 's achievements and the debt of gratitude we owe him for his leadership .
24 We glimpse him at this time as the ‘ very accurate , industrious young man ’ commended by ‘ Governor ’ Thomas Pownall [ q.v . ] .
25 But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin .
26 We may get more from Dr. Bonnard when we question him in depth .
27 ‘ I ca n't really answer that until we see what we find when we get him on the table .
28 But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace .
29 As his biographer develops the theme of his travels , it becomes difficult to tell whether Godric is more of a merchant or a pilgrim : we find him at Jerusalem , at Compostela and at Rome .
30 If we find him for you , I fancy we 'd value a few minutes of his time ourselves , if we find him … ’
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