Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list .
2 But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee .
3 But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club .
4 Such was the excitement and focus on Maggie that in spite of Rose 's care to draw him into the conversation Moran began to feel out of it and grew bored .
5 Milton was developing a certain respect for the Colonel 's ability to get him off the main point of the interview .
6 Then the Soviet authorities bowed to pressure and allowed the fiancée of Sakharov 's stepson to join him in the United States .
7 It was the same when he walked ; he found that he was unsteady on his feet , and liked to have Nathan 's arm to help him into the carriage , as though it were a matter of ordinary courtesy from a younger man to an older .
8 She went into Jack 's office to find him on the phone .
9 But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre .
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