Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The story is that there 's an irresponsible , bored lunatic in Deptford , and I ought to keep him in a cage until I need him . ’ |
| 2 | I should describe him as an innocent . |
| 3 | Oh yes , well I 'll remind him in a minute . |
| 4 | I 'll get him in a Glory all right and up Monument Hill . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll take him on a picnic , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll canter him for a bit , then wait till you come up for your turn . ’ |
| 7 | I reckoned I could blackmail him into a job . |
| 8 | His leg seemed to have stopped bleeding , or very nearly , and he could n't have severed an artery or he 'd have bled to death by now , but all the same there had to be a pretty serious wound under the cloth of his trousers and the faster I could get him to a doctor the better . |
| 9 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |
| 10 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , by Wednesday I 'm clear of the Committee , and I could take him to a Regional Office . |
| 12 | We will take it steadily and I could see him as a Festival hope . |
| 13 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 14 | I was terrified I 'd lose him to a starlet . ’ |
| 15 | At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency . |
| 16 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 17 | If a man was workshy and mutinous I would put him in a cell to cool his heels for a while . |
| 18 | I would ask him on authorisation from er the Assistant Chief Constable , I would ask him for a number of officers . |
| 19 | I would have him like a fucking Biafran . |
| 20 | I told him I would contact him in a few days , but I never did . |
| 21 | I said I understand your busy , I said if you ca n't turn him say , then I will turn him in an hour I ca n't do it before , fine , I said at least I 'm not sitting like a prat telling him a load of rubbish |
| 22 | Oh I had one bloody customer see if I can quote him to a complete relocate , it was only a bloody er systems , probably no taller than that speaker |
| 23 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |
| 24 | Fifteen years later a man of 76 , thinking he would like to try satellite television , collected the requisite number of newspaper coupons which would entitle him to a 30-day trial of a satellite dish . |
| 25 | His new-round reputation was also reflected in smart London society flocking to see the latest novelties from Australia — dead and alive — in the ornithologist 's house in Broad Street , as well as the number of subscribers willing to pay for his extravagant Australian publications , which would provide him with an income for the next 30 years . |
| 26 | Manville had every faith in the Russian 's ability to dig out the vital weakness in Vologsky 's make-up which would turn him into a traitor . |
| 27 | The small producer will be drawn into a socialised enterprise , not by means of non-economic coercion , but chiefly by the economic advantages which will provide him with a tractor , electric light bulbs , agricultural machinery and so on . |
| 28 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 29 | ‘ As you were working and you run a business , I assumed you must leave him with a babyminder . ’ |
| 30 | And you must fight him as an enemy and you must defeat him . |