Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified .
2 The head had asked the educational psychologist to come and assess him with a view to producing a formal Statement of Special Educational Needs .
3 According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts .
4 She stopped and halted him with a hand on his arm .
5 His players respected and loved him as a result .
6 GAME show host Leslie Crowther is fully conscious again , five weeks after the car crash that put him in a coma .
7 Easy-E says representatives of Sony intimidated and threatened him during a meeting in 1991 at the SOLAR Records office in Hollywood .
8 She came and kissed him like an anteater , and he went out of the door .
9 The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time .
10 But she over-reacted and dragged him to a south London police station .
11 They nodded and invited him to a meeting .
12 Tom Selleck as King Ferdinand of Spain is a real hoot — he ca n't decide whether to play him as a moody Continental or haughty monarch , so what we get is a cross between Magnum and Don Juan with an accent that hovers between Malibu and Basingstoke .
13 Willoughby de Broke saw something of himself in his grandmother , ‘ a good whip and a good horsewoman ’ , who taught him to ride and launched him on an obsessively pursued career in hunting .
14 He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point .
15 Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense .
16 Cecilia did not dislike Jarvis , she did not dislike anybody , but she feared and distrusted him as a bachelor with no regular job , no real income and a home which she was convinced would be sold to the property developers .
17 It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’
18 I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out .
19 We 'll go and see him in a while . ’
20 Well , can we go and ask him for an invitation ?
21 Yes go and put him in a slice of toast Matt
22 She rescues him , drives him out of town as dawn starts to break and leaves him in a wheatfield .
23 She became assertive-in-spite-of-herself , and marching rapidly from one end of the kitchen to the other , which she always did when entrusting him with a home truth , said , ‘ It 's not , Henry .
24 " endeavour to find out a person both to answer to their expectation and those of the Town , and … to superintend and assist him for a while . "
25 She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic .
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