Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 2 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 3 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 4 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 5 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 6 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 7 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 8 | Henry 's wholehearted displays in such a variety of roles , allied to his self-effacing modesty , combined to endear him to all Palace fans of the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | Sooner or later Rebecca would learn that her trust in him was unfounded , that she had to share him with any woman who took his fancy . |
| 10 | Now , more than anything , she wanted to point him towards that hole and push . |
| 11 | Apart from anything else , she wanted to recompense him in some way , although she doubted he would accept a reward . |