Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 2 | If our dear departed were not going to speak out against the Berlin talks as seemed altogether likely suppose — I must say suppose — that some deranged mind decided to eliminate him under the guise of a Muscovite attempt on the dear Praident ? |
| 3 | Jean 's boss decided to bring him into the business as a sales director . |
| 4 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 5 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 6 | The tentacle started to pull him across the floor . |
| 7 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |
| 8 | The clerk of the court refused to supply him with the names of the lay justices who had decided it , pursuant to a policy which was being adopted by an increasing number of magistrates courts of declining to identify justices to the public or the press . |
| 9 | Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor . |
| 10 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 11 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 12 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 13 | The Labour MP Dr Jack Cunningham was touring the complex during the nuclear spillage , but the nuclear company failed to notify him of the incident . |
| 14 | This was not a principle calculated to endear him to the Inland Revenue or the men from Customs & Excise . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 17 | ‘ Sometimes , he would lose his temper and start breaking the furniture ; and his family decided to send him to the maison de santé at Gheel . |
| 18 | Their theme was simplicity itself : the precentor wished to become a monk ; the bishop wished to retain him in the service of the cathedral . |