Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 2 | It appears that Harley has a special mirror enabling him to see clearly into the future . |
| 3 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 4 | The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy 's parents for letting him play there in the first place . |
| 5 | They certainly should not have been letting him curl up on the floor next to Badger . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ Edwards is the best support player in the game but it 's no use having him hanging about in the wings when the experience could be given to a younger player . |
| 7 | Mr Trippier , who was said to be expressing the views of his constituents , wrote to Mr Kenneth Clarke on November 24 asking him to look again at the original 6.5 per cent pay offer , saying it was not fair . |
| 8 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |
| 9 | Watching him stare gloomily at the table , Lucy said impulsively , ‘ Perhaps I could help . |
| 10 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 11 | At that time P C then was speaking to the man telling him to get out of the bed . |