Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 2 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 3 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 4 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 5 | For he knew what Susan had done to present him with this daughter , his beautiful Kate , born just 12 years ago , six months after Simon had left their village . |
| 6 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 7 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 8 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |
| 10 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |