Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 2 | The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | But young children had reported spotting him inside the school , putting paper on to the fire . |
| 4 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 5 | Jim Richards describes spotting him on the terrace of Shepheard 's Hotel , Cairo . |
| 6 | ‘ Constable David Owen said : ‘ The crowd remained silent after Downey shouted but when the tribute ended they began punching him round the neck , back and body and began pushing him towards us . ’ ’ |
| 7 | His colleagues , relieved to find something to talk about , began questioning him about the case . |
| 8 | ‘ I like having him in the house , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Barman John Meakin said : ‘ We just could n't face chucking him on the bonfire . |
| 10 | ‘ Silly old bugger , ’ she says suddenly , as Fairfax , in the way of elderly men who have once been very athletic , hobbles and skips to the lavatory , trying to shake the easily accumulated stiffness out of his limbs , as though by this display of sprightliness he can somehow leap out of the tethers fi-xing him to the earth . |
| 11 | Although convicted of taking part in the attack no evidence was brought linking him to the knife . |
| 12 | When a person is detained in respect of more than one offence it is permissible to delay bringing him before the custody officer until the above conditions are satisfied in respect of all the offences ( but see paragraph 11.4 ) . |
| 13 | His father , unable to speak the words of farewell , kept patting him on the back , his face a ruin . |
| 14 | I keep getting him on the phone , I already know . |
| 15 | The structure of section 7 , in my view , clearly contemplates the constable who has arrested the person bailed bringing him before the justice and stating his , that is to say the constable 's , grounds for believing that the defendant has broken a condition of his bail . |
| 16 | At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings . |
| 17 | No one capable of creating kangaroos could have resisted hitting him in the face with a divine custard pie . |
| 18 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 19 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 20 | When working with the patient who considers himself a consistent failure in a particular area of his life , part of that treatment may well involve regressing him to the time of one of these earlier successes . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing , ’ Lucy said , taking another chair from by the wall and bringing it over so that she could sit facing him across the desk . |
| 22 | Jackson , who pleaded not guilty , admitted frogmarching Mr Brown from the premises but denied striking him on the back of the head . |
| 23 | Beattie sat facing him across the table during his interview . |
| 24 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 25 | We sat facing him from the customer 's end of a leather-topped desk . |
| 26 | For a moment , Kelly considered telling him about the dance , but then she thought better of it . |