Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was trying to get hold of their coach to stop him from going back to Italy in a casket . |
| 2 | The Wembley midfielder launched a sensational attack on the ‘ Caring Club ’ and accused them of not caring enough in their bid to keep him at Roker Park . |
| 3 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 4 | My Lord the defence admit that no such advice was given to the plaintiff but they deny that they were under any duty er to give such advice and it is pleaded in the that er the defendants will rely upon the fact that Mr er held himself out to be er an experienced man of business and as such it was not necessary on their part to advise him upon the adequacy and arrangements for the financing of the operation . |
| 5 | But they had also demonstrated , by their eagerness to deflect him from it , that his was no fool 's errand . |