Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ . |
| 3 | I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ . |
| 4 | I remember him outside the front door , getting out of the taxi . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember him from a long time ago . |
| 6 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 7 | I remind him of the disproportionate harm that the MacSharry proposals would cause and seek his assurance that he will bear in mind the Scottish farmers and all those elsewhere in Britain when he represents the interests of the British Government and the British farmer in Europe . |
| 8 | In view of the fact that , like you , I regard him as a fluent liar and consummate actor , I think not . |
| 9 | I thank him for a speedy and compassionate response . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 11 | I see him as a servile little bugger ! |
| 12 | I thought he played well against England last week and I see him as a valuable member of our squad . ’ |
| 13 | On being asked by someone else whether she saw God as male or female , she replied ‘ Neither : I see him as an absolute supreme Being ! ’ . |
| 14 | I have a feeling its not too different from how Leeds play now , that s why I see him as an excellent ( joint ? ) |
| 15 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 16 | I see him in a white coat . |
| 17 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 18 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
| 19 | No it 's probably er a reaction like you do if you tickle him in a certain place they go do n't they ? |
| 20 | So you drop him at the actual hospital ? |
| 21 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 22 | I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support for Mr. Norman Warner , whose appointment will be widely welcomed by those who know him as an independent-minded and good man . |
| 23 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 24 | In the second camp are those who regard him as a true philosopher , however provocative his manner , who is restating traditional philosophical problems in a new way . |
| 25 | But though certain extremely powerful individuals — like Kraus and his mother — enslave him , it is people , ‘ ordinary ’ folk who are to him completely extraordinary , who free him from the greatest enchanter of them all — books . |
| 26 | ‘ As you follow him through the first forest , ’ he said , ‘ Remember this , if you can … keep asking yourself the question : why did he fail to return . |
| 27 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 28 | You see him as an insignificant twit . |
| 29 | I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention |
| 30 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |