Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 2 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |
| 3 | He addresses God as the God of Abraham and Isaac , the God who has commanded this return to the Land , and who has assured him with the words , ‘ I will do you good . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 5 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 6 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 7 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 8 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 9 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 10 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 11 | Goering could have shot him from the skies . |
| 12 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 13 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 14 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 15 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 16 | She could have asked him about the carrots . |
| 17 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
| 18 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 19 | I could have taken him if he 's on the public highway , I could have taken him to the police station . |
| 20 | So , too , had Hawke 's own navigating officer , who having warned him of the dangers was firmly told : ‘ You have done your duty in this remonstrance ; you are now to obey my orders . |
| 21 | Cissie was the first to recover , and there was no doubt she would have chased him to the ends of Kingdom Come if Beth had n't thrust out an arm to stop her . |
| 22 | What 's worse , it seems to have blinded him to the facts of Liverpool history . |
| 23 | It was an important occasion because his uncle was to have initiated him into the mysteries of handling langoustines . |
| 24 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 25 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 26 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 27 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 28 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 29 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 30 | But for the generosity Dysart had shown him over the years , he might even have approved of his actions . |