Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interesting example is the Count of Nordland who is the Prince of Marienburg from which the ruling Burgomeisters have forbidden him to return upon pain of death , Marienburg having seceded from the Empire . |
| 2 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 3 | She dismissed him to silence with a wave of a narrow , fleshless arm . |
| 4 | Er , I mean , we have met him , once or twice , but that 's as much as I can say , and it 's been er su such a span of time , that I do n't even know now , whether I would recognise him walking along the street . |
| 5 | Once they 'd cleaned him up he looked a little better , but I could n't recognise him to begin with |
| 6 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 7 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 8 | I want him to return to his old life , which I consider would be much better for him . |
| 9 | I want him to shoot for every flag . |
| 10 | See , if you want him to stop in it , you got ta keep paying the forfeit all the time th them weeks that go by . |
| 11 | I want him to want to be with me and do things . |
| 12 | I might say ‘ Yes he s good and I want him to play for Leeds ’ . |
| 13 | but there 's an organ is Sussex they want him to look at and erm so he said well send me a photograph er they 've got a photograph of it you see |
| 14 | ‘ I think that he is an actor of international standing and if the production is taken up I want him to stay with it . |
| 15 | The traveller , we now discover , is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach . |
| 16 | I want him waiting by this corner . |
| 17 | Did he also notice that twice as many people would trust him to negotiate on Europe for this country as would trust the Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 18 | ‘ He tricked me into employing him to look after my boats simply in order to gain access to my cousin . |
| 19 | Happily , my finally getting to meet him coincides with the release of one of Morrissey 's great records ( they seem to alternate quite evenly with duff ones ) , so there 's no awkward rub between the fan 's loyalty and the critic 's ‘ responsibility ’ to the ‘ truth ’ . |
| 20 | Freddy replied , and blurred vision notwithstanding , went after Fly , overtaking him to stand between his brother and the elevator . |
| 21 | The Lord spoke to a nightwatchman in the port of Valparaiso in a dream , instructing him to go to his pastor and tell him to gather his most spiritual people together to pray every day . |
| 22 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 23 | The report was produced by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in compliance with a UN resolution of 1987 instructing him to enquire into where responsibility for the conflict lay . |
| 24 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 25 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 26 | He is no respecter of titles : when the Daily Express queried his ability , he sent a lemon to Lord Stevens , the paper 's proprietor and invited him to suck on it . |
| 27 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 28 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 29 | He went home on the Saturday night of his third week with someone who invited him to stay for Sunday lunch . |
| 30 | A group of vengeful noblemen invited him to dine with them one evening , served him poisoned food and wine and then set about murdering him — a process that was anything but straightforward . |