Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 2 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 3 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 4 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 5 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 6 | Josh had to be squeezed into Clare 's tight weekday schedule : after taking him to the babysitter in Pimlico , she caught another bus to the shoe shop where she worked . |
| 7 | Earlier , driver Geoffrey Wellens had stopped to ask Mr Thompson if he was alright after spotting him on the road . |
| 8 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 9 | After leaving him on the bedroom floor , he returned to throw a jug of water in his father 's face . |
| 10 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 11 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 12 | Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station . |
| 13 | ‘ Many would subscribe towards sinking him to the ocean bed . |
| 14 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 15 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 16 | Harbour , having scanned the field for Geoffrey — he had some notion of rushing him from the rear and felling him with a rabbit-chop — ran off to compare notes with Dotty and the others . |
| 17 | Because of the apprehension of a breach of the peace on the part of the inspector , it was held , there arose a duty on him to prevent a breach of the peace , and because the appellant had sought to hold the meeting in defiance of his instructions , she was guilty of obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 18 | Sharing Gladstone 's high churchmanship , he was well qualified for the difficult task of reconciling him to the policy of Welsh disestablishment . |
| 19 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
| 20 | The strain of having him in the club practically all the time had been hard enough . |
| 21 | Although she was nervous of putting him to the test , she knew that , sooner or later , she must . |
| 22 | He has at most two years before the next presidential election in which to try to put together a new centre left movement capable of carrying him into the president 's seat . |
| 23 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 24 | A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July . |
| 25 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 26 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 27 | Early in 1918 , a meeting of Unionist leaders considered future relations with Lloyd George and " Bob Cecil and Curzon [ were ] against touching him on the ground that he is such a dirty little rogue " . |
| 28 | Wycliffe felt like patting him on the head , but he thanked him and saw him off with his samples , then he went back to his little office and sat staring at the wall . |
| 29 | Mungo felt like patting him on the back to show him that they sympathized , but the moment passed , and anyway Mr Zamoyski might not have understood . |
| 30 | When my colleague had said that , with me sitting right beside him , I felt like punching him in the face ; it was that kind of attitude that any campaign would have to fight . |