Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But our dignity supremely lies in the capacity and desire that God has given us to enjoy him and to seek for his esteem and friendship . |
| 2 | So if Pam do n't , wants to know what to buy him , he wants some of them . |
| 3 | Though Clinton may have clinched most of the Jewish vote with his down-the-line promise to treat Israel more gently than President Bush does , the irony is that , for Jews and gentiles alike , his blatant Big Apple vote-seeking has done nothing to make him look principled or even presidential . |
| 4 | Crowds watched as court staff and police tried to grab him to stop him plunging 30ft on to spiked railings . |
| 5 | While still on her sick-bed , Conroy tried to force her to appoint him as her personal secretary when she became queen . |
| 6 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 7 | Frank has asked me to marry him . |
| 8 | This must be our secret , but Timothy has asked me to marry him , too . |
| 9 | Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer . |
| 10 | ‘ Sir George has asked me to marry him ! ’ |
| 11 | I expect she has asked you to tell him everything that has happened , and persuade him to make friends and thank me ? |
| 12 | I tried to get her to give him the elbow but she would always say , ‘ but Eddie , he means well and he 's so kind ’ . |
| 13 | I am not a street fighter , I do n't need to hate him to beat him . |
| 14 | These somewhat academic findings are not very helpful to the mother whose child has begged her to let him watch a gangster film or to buy him a plastic ‘ death-ray gun ’ for Christmas . |
| 15 | My mother insisted on my being one of his godfathers , a unique responsibility which has allowed me to offer him some tactful advice from time to time . |
| 16 | God has created me to do Him some definite service . |
| 17 | Hugh , himself I think he is completing his work and there , in , in a few months time and I know there have attempts made to find someone to replace him . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's never written asking you to send him some money ? ’ |
| 19 | By midnight , he 'd asked me to marry him . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd been shy and fair-haired the Sunday afternoon he 'd asked her to marry him , without any confidence in those days . |
| 21 | The one drawback to the Beka'a Video Club was that Abu Salim , who 'd asked us to give him English lessons , would come down with a list of words and phrases he 'd noted while watching the films and ask for an explanation , his main interest was obscene vocabulary . |
| 22 | Later , changing into his dinner jacket in the executive cloakroom , Matthew wished he had thought to ask someone to accompany him to the chairman 's party . |
| 23 | If he is in a bargaining mood , he might like to ask them to furnish him with a new typewriter . |
| 24 | I would have done anything to keep him — anything … ’ |
| 25 | It would have helped you to tell him . " |
| 26 | It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him . |
| 27 | I should have got you to photograph him ’ he added . |
| 28 | And she just knew that , if she had not brought up the subject of Tony , he would have invited her to join him in his walk along the shore . |
| 29 | ‘ In the good old days David Owen would have asked me to join him ’ |
| 30 | Maniguet was questioned by the police on his arrival in Sydney but again they were frustrated by lack of evidence that would have allowed them to detain him . |