Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 2 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 3 | He did not see her at all as he got out of the car and Jenna had the chance to observe him without the dark eyes pinning her quizzically . |
| 4 | Yet oddly enough when Massine staged his Donald of the Burthens with the help of a Scottish expert to guide him through the traditional steps and figures it was not a success , possibly because too much reliance was placed . |
| 5 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 6 | On Feb. 20 Brooke had held talks with John Hume , the leader of the Social Democratic and Liberal Party , and the next day had met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister , to brief him on the earlier meetings . |
| 7 | I saw Mr Callaghan come down the steps of his plane , stop at the foot and greet the throng of journalists waiting on the tarmac to question him about the current discontents . |
| 8 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 9 | So I mean , I will continue to harass him through the twelve months if possible , because I think |
| 10 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 11 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 12 | I have tried once or twice to get him to the big hills , or to the Dolomites , but he sees no reason to waste time that could be spent in Norway or Greenland . |
| 13 | Ossie wanted to ask him about the two gentlemen of Verona . |
| 14 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 15 | Guy Sterne 's smile was dry as she finally emerged to join him by the outdoor pools , her expression almost serene . |
| 16 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
| 17 | He dismissed the service and told us to follow him to the back rooms for counselling . |
| 18 | We call him ‘ gangling Chang ’ to distinguish him from the other Changs , because he is tall , thin , loose-limbed , and is ready to laugh about anything , although it appears he has some family problems in that his wife is away and his baby son is ill . |
| 19 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 20 | She wanted to say that not only was that ridiculous but it was dangerous , she wanted to tell him about the frightening minutes in the maze of old Nice . |