Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb -s] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it does n't matter what I say to him or how hard Phil Boersma works him in the gym or in training — Barnes has to do it himself . |
| 2 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 3 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 4 | But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress . |
| 5 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |