Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's kind of you to make me so welcome , ’ she said , dazzling him with a very personal smile . |
| 2 | He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man . |
| 3 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 4 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 5 | For Great Britain , the Department of Trade and Industry persuaded Luke Rittner , former Secretary General of the Arts Council , to act as its cultural adviser , but wasted the invitation by equipping him with a totally inadequate budget . |
| 6 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |