Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 3 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 4 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 5 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 6 | What influence I had with S.B. was now used to persuade him of the wisdom of this course . |
| 7 | None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement . |
| 8 | This time Holy Foley faces the John Upson-trained course and distance winner Some Obligation and will be hard pressed to overturn him in the Ludlow Hunters ' Chase today . |
| 9 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 10 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 11 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |