Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] him [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 2 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 3 | I think we 're walking round , I think 's probably more , more efficient than perhaps inviting him to a meeting . |
| 4 | New dating techniques had been developed and these were used on Piltdown Man so exposing him as a fraud . |
| 5 | ‘ Who indeed ? ’ she asked , not believing him for a minute , ‘ But rather arrogant of you to assume I would be willing to be caught . ’ |
| 6 | No see I must admit I wonder whether your Mum will find too much of a handful she 's already telling him off a lot you know ? |
| 7 | It seemed that once people met him they decided they were better off having him as a friend than an enemy . |
| 8 | I was particularly unconvinced by the scene where they go haring round the countryside in search of Josef Locke ( Ned Beatty ) and end up finding him in a pub . |
| 9 | Because he had prayed with a pure heart throughout the night , a tendril from the God-Emperor was now nudging him like a guardian spirit . |
| 10 | And the Reds boss has delivered a surprise vote-of-confidence in his £2.2m signing from Derby even tipping him for a return to the England side . |
| 11 | She tossed her head , aware she was n't fooling him for a minute . |
| 12 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 13 | That in turn involves much more than simply studying him as a figure of past history , or breathing in his historical influence . |
| 14 | The dunnie , or doonie , most especially delights in taking an unsuspecting victim for a wild ride and then tossing him into a pile of mud or manure . |
| 15 | He was convicted of repeatedly punching the victim and striking him on the neck with a knife , then chasing him into a garden . |