Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at Bernard , frowned , then glanced round sharply when he heard someone calling him from the end of the counter . |
| 2 | Was she telling him about the plot to de-select Grunte ? |
| 3 | Then the rope tightened around his body , and he felt something pulling him beneath the surface . |
| 4 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 5 | She liked flowers , liked even more the thought behind them , but Gaily only remembered when he caught them staring him in the face — or in the feet , as now . |
| 6 | Busacher indulging him , letting him do as he wished as usual … everyone treating him as the saviour of Hochhauser . |
| 7 | She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction . |
| 8 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 9 | Taken aback by her anger and foreseeing the likelihood of her leaving him on the strength of it , Jeremy switches tactics to conciliation . |
| 10 | Er er er , I ca n't remember him throwing him over the edge . |
| 11 | Fat women and bald-headed men standing in the doorways of tiny shops make jokes to him which he ca n't quite understand , and shout ribaldries to each other about him clapping him on the shoulder to indicate they 're not serious , and cutting slices of cheese and sausage for him to try . |
| 12 | ‘ Come in , Hari , sure Cleg will be that glad to see you , he 's been wearing his brother 's boots to work in and them pinching him like the devil . ’ |
| 13 | Tony looked again at the poster — felt it drawing him to the past — the glamour of showbusiness , with its stage-door Johnnies and exciting , feminine showgirls . |
| 14 | Mario Zupanovic has n't had anyone stopping him in the street for autographs yet . |
| 15 | He recalled his telling him about the time he went into a pub when a man suggested having sex with him and pulled down his trousers in front of the assembled company . |
| 16 | I knotted my fingers together to stop me grabbing him round the throat . |