Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Léonie , used to him clad in blue jacket and brown corduroy trousers , did n't feel able to kiss him good morning . |
| 2 | Of course he needed to finance so improbable a research programme , so he sold his dragons to an Emperor , who had them minced up and served to him garnished with spit-roasted swallows ' tongues , at one of his less important banquets . |
| 3 | Stella , before Howard leaves , will you fix for him to fly to New Canaan for a few days last spring … ? ’ |
| 4 | WHEN our grandson reaches 11 , we wish to pay for him to go to public school . |
| 5 | In the nature of things meadow , grove and stream no longer appeared to him apparelled in celestial light , the glory and the freshness of a dream . |
| 6 | A friend of mine in Holland runs a psycho-geriatric hospital and he says that approximately twenty per cent of the patients sent to him suffering from seeming senility , i.e. confusion , some incontinence , and anxiety attacks , are in fact suffering from prolonged overdoses of tea . |
| 7 | That sort of compartmentalization has been roundly denounced by Bob Jones University and those sections of American fundamentalism with which Paisley is most at home but we will never know if his religio-political system would permit such pragmatism because the constitutional issue so overrides everything else in Northern Ireland that there is no expectation or need for him to work with conservative Catholics . |
| 8 | It loomed over him chuckling with preternatural malice . |