Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] he [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The use of special juries of merchants by Lord Mansfield to guide him on the law is well known — not that he always followed their suggestions .
2 Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle .
3 He allowed Jane to sit him by the table and then damp down his hair with water — ice cold and brackish ! — from the ewer .
4 Officers had tried all day to contact Mr Maughan to tell him of the tragedy .
5 He pushed open the door and allowed Catherine to precede him into the studio .
6 He gestured for Ballater to follow him into the living-room and indicated the chair by the empty fireplace .
7 He had started by ‘ snorting ’ Temgesic tablets and had then allowed Murray to inject him with the drug .
8 What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come .
9 You gave me to understand that even if you had not had your accident you would almost certainly not have come to France to see him at the end . ’
10 The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh .
11 He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet .
12 Father got Eric to help him with the clearing-up and repairs while I took myself and Paul out from under their feet .
13 On 27 November 1609 Bowyer succeeded to the office of clerk of the parliaments and shortly afterwards brought Elsynge to assist him in the House of Lords .
14 Simon had asked Hilary to marry him in the morning before he went into work .
15 He did n't need Fraser to tell him about the brother and sister .
16 Wednesday were shattered at giving up a three-goal lead at home but their plan to expose right-back Paul Parker 's size by getting Hirst to attack him in the air paid off with two goals — plus one for the striker himself .
17 Just how weak were Rank 's budgetary controls can be seen from their dealings with Gabriel Pascal , the Hungarian producer whose brief career was built on his having persuaded George Bernard Shaw to trust him with the film rights to his plays .
18 He would grab a completed section of the overall plan from Mark 's private secretary just as soon as she had typed it , and dash off to his own office down the corridor to study it carefully many times over , before taking it along to Muldoon to keep him in the picture .
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