Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 2 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 3 | ‘ I intend to introduce him to the Führer at that meeting , General . |
| 4 | I got to give him to you hold it |
| 5 | Finally I got to ask him about Claude Rains . |
| 6 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 7 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 8 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 9 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 10 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 12 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 13 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 14 | I tried to shame him into giving some away . |
| 15 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
| 16 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 17 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 20 | Cos I , I want to send him into the shed because I had him first |
| 21 | He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’ |
| 22 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 23 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
| 24 | I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone . |
| 25 | I like to compare him with a footballing genius , putting through passes others are too slow to take , and making moves that would be brilliant if only the rules were different . |
| 26 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 27 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | I did n't , it was so cold yesterday , we 'd been out in the morning and I decided to put him in his cot , on the odd occasion I do , do , he 's gone to sleep without any problems |
| 29 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 30 | So when I bought a dog I decided to name him after a man I admired so much . ’ |