Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] him [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered idly why Rose had not asked him to apply the sun-cream and then realised that he was not among the swimmers . |
| 2 | He was a bright child ; my father intended to send him off to school properly when the time came , and had already started him learning the alphabet . |
| 3 | But I had n't noticed him clocking the fact until the day he decided to bugger off to Box 29 with Veronica . |
| 4 | I had n't noticed that he was carrying , not wearing , it and I certainly had n't seen him take the meat . |
| 5 | This presumably allowed him to show the orchestra in an optimally effective role at all times , in the transition to Classical style . |
| 6 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 7 | There are numerous examples of the operative sense construed with to in British English as well : ( 112 ) I had never known him to pass the garden-gate before . |