Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CBI , the British Institute of Management and the Institute of Personnel Management have all put to him the same point about single-union agreements . |
| 2 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 3 | These attitudes transposed easily to the Commonwealth point of view , class warfare and nationalist agitation both arousing in him the same confidently emollient response . |
| 4 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
| 5 | Now stealing from him the natural flesh ? |
| 6 | I could tell him anything , even share with him the contradictory motives within my personality , and he would still love and accept me . |
| 7 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |