Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner .
2 Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts .
3 With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-PatiƱo should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 .
4 After playing the gregarious cocaine fiend , Tad Allagash , in Bright Lights , Big City with his friend Michael J Fox ( who is rumoured to have suggested him for the role ) , he began researching his part in Young Guns .
5 I had hoped to intervene to ask him about the extent of the Bill , but he sat down very rapidly at the end of his speech .
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