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

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1 On the one hand he was supposedly an inferior being , with anti-social habits and disgusting personality traits ; on the other hand he possessed a superior intelligence and sufficient group solidarity to leave him on the verge of world domination .
2 Setting up a business was a different challenge and Stan , with help from the Scottish Development Agency also took a sixteen week course with The Scottish Business school to help him with the mechanics of being an employer , selling and marketing his fossils .
3 So , no doubt as a result of some string-pulling from Bletchley , Harold 's local recruiting office was instructed by the War Office to recruit him into the Intelligence Corps .
4 He said : ‘ Maurin asked the taxi driver to take him to the museum yesterday .
5 Certainly , this seems more plausible than the story of Franco 's late arrival , which was almost certainly invented later as part of the propaganda campaign to present him as the powerful statesman for whom even Adolf Hitler would wait .
6 During 1941 Hillary persuaded the Air Ministry to send him to the United States on a speaking tour .
7 Wright has not played for England since the European Championship game against Holland 18 months ago but Robson has been sufficiently impressed by his League form to recall him to the squad .
8 Abo Mukhtar will adopt him , she says , wrapping him in a swaddling cloth to protect him from the dirt and dust .
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