Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crilly leads me into Perry 's flat and seats me beside him on the orange settee . |
| 2 | It was sent by a sad Manc git using my Id cos he 's too scared to use his own — if anyone wishes to reply to his infantile shite they can send them to him at the following address … |
| 3 | His hand captured her face and turned her towards him in the old domineering manner but his eyes were not at all hard . |
| 4 | ‘ The penthouse suite , ’ he announced and , inserting a key into the lock , opened the door and swept her with him into the spacious sitting-room . |
| 5 | He put an arm round her and hugged her to him in the familiar , easy fashion she was used to . |
| 6 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 7 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 8 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 9 | They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit : he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze ; he will discard it when , and only when , he wills to do so , and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone . |
| 10 | St Boniface took it with him into the Frankish kingdom . |
| 11 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 12 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 13 | He took it into the box where the keeper came out & spread well , but Wallace knocked it over him into the right side of the net . |