Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I decided to phone him in the evening . |
| 7 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 8 | Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle . |
| 9 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 10 | ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’ |
| 11 | But of course I had to remove him from the field . ’ |
| 12 | I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did . |
| 13 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
| 14 | ‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’ |
| 15 | For instance , I wanted to feed him on the baby food in jars and I keep telling her I do , but I end up feeding him the powdered food like my mum wants . |
| 16 | I wanted to ask him about the room , if anyone has cancelled . |
| 17 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 18 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |
| 19 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |
| 20 | For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved . |