Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 2 | He then passed quickly through the crowd , eyes studiously on the ground , black gown folded round him like a rook 's wings . |
| 3 | There on the television monitors was a body lying alone in the middle of the track with his seat still strapped to him like a pilot 's parachute pack . |
| 4 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |
| 5 | The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care . |