Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damiani senior maintained a chauffeur to take him round the family olive groves . |
| 2 | Ted was a natural , so unless he managed to find a right-hander to take him through the Backdoor , he was always looking over his shoulder . |
| 3 | He has an analyst to advise him on life . |
| 4 | Chairman Lord Younger has announced that , in addition to a tour of the building , Her Majesty has accepted an invitation to join him for lunch . |
| 5 | So the film company organized a car to take him from Reading to Pangbourne . |
| 6 | A frog asked a princess to take him to bed with her so that he could turn into a fairy prince . |
| 7 | It became a joke to ply him with half-pints of beer and fantasies about each other 's unfitness for battle . |
| 8 | Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division . |
| 9 | He just stood there with hands on hips until Waters raised a hand to tap him on the shoulder . |
| 10 | In Donaghy [ 1981 ] Crim LR 644 ( Crown Court ) , the accused ordered a taxi-driver to take him from Newmarket to London and made threats to his life . |
| 11 | They found it difficult to rouse him and on seeing the bottle of tablets on the floor next to him , called an ambulance to take him to hospital . |
| 12 | When Rhun in his kindness lent an arm to raise him from his knees , he hung heavily still , clinging to his desperate humility . |
| 13 | A man describing himself as being in the public relations business had phoned Julian Klein 's office and made an appointment to meet him on this day , but had not divulged the nature of his business . |
| 14 | You pay a forfeit to put him in that race . |
| 15 | He immediately chartered a plane to take him to Paris the next day and made his meeting . |
| 16 | ‘ Hi , ’ said Lydia , suppressing an urge to apostrophise him by his calling . |
| 17 | Time for the same man to complete his work in Finland , then catch a plane to London and hire a car to take him to Suffolk . |
| 18 | Mr Yeltsin 's aides have said he would ignore a vote to remove him by the Congress , which was elected before the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | An ambulance took an hour to take him to Warrington . |
| 20 | There is no question that fighting a war to eject him from Kuwait is going to make all the problems of the Middle East more difficult to solve . |
| 21 | Like Dexter , BBC pundit Lewis would receive a wage to compensate him for giving up his TV and newspaper work . |
| 22 | ‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’ |
| 23 | When you had a chance to meet him in his house with his guests , he was a most charming and intelligent man . |
| 24 | He had a council to advise him on these policy decisions , and he and his council recognized the great similarity between the powers of the assembly and those of the House of Commons in passing laws and imposing new taxes . |
| 25 | Before long the sweater was finished and the various parts stitched together with her usual professional finish , ready to post off to Penry next day to make certain he had a keepsake to remind him of his castaway . |
| 26 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 27 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 28 | If he feels very unsafe , because the traffic is moving fast , he may prefer to ask a passer-by to help him across the road . |
| 29 | Although men who were retained for life by a great magnate had an obligation to serve him in peace and war , and although there is little evidence about how the sub-contractors recruited their troops , neither the magnate captains nor their sub-contractors seem to have encountered much difficulty in persuading men to serve . |
| 30 | Just in case Lord Milton failed to appreciate his value , MacLachlan stressed that he had been approached by the rival interest in the county and had been offered sufficient to make him easy for life , and accordingly implied that Milton had an obligation to aid him with his creditors and enable him to arrange further loans . |