Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball . |
| 2 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 3 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’ |
| 5 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
| 6 | You 're going to knock on his door and you 're going to bring him outside and you 're going to put him in the car . ’ |
| 7 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 8 | Brain power and horse power is going to take him to the top of the sport . |
| 9 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |
| 10 | Miguel 's going to ask him on the night — out of the blue . |
| 11 | This time when he slid the door back , she moved towards him , as if expecting him to let her pass , beginning to tell him about the incident at the Dragon Cloud , the wicker basket of leftovers from the teahouse held out before her . |
| 12 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 13 | Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings . |
| 14 | A hidden mechanism activates , ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge . |
| 15 | So , too , had Hawke 's own navigating officer , who having warned him of the dangers was firmly told : ‘ You have done your duty in this remonstrance ; you are now to obey my orders . |
| 16 | Having edged him to the end of the branch , he utters a shattering ‘ bock ’ in his ear and the rival falls off . |
| 17 | Why did n't Luke damn well help him , instead of threatening to throw him off the film ? |
| 18 | She lashed out suddenly with her crop , intending to hit him in the face . |
| 19 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 20 | ‘ A wild rider , a woman , was reaching to tug him from the pyre . |
| 21 | She leaned forward to address Simmons intending to remind him of the reason for her visit to the college , but he began to speak . |
| 22 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 23 | Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other . |
| 24 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |
| 25 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 26 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
| 27 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He ran well from a bad draw when beaten about four lengths at Redcar recently and I am hoping to run him in the Portland Handicap at Doncaster . ’ |
| 29 | So I smiled nervously and slammed him in the mouth with the metal box , trying to kick him in the groin as he sagged , but his heavy overcoat protected him well . |
| 30 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |