Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 2 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 3 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 4 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 5 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 6 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 7 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 8 | ‘ Until this happened , I would have described him as a conventional Anglican . |