Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] him [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
2 | If so , no one would ever have dared to tease him about his middle name . |
3 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
4 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
5 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
6 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |