Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness . |
| 2 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 3 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 4 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
| 5 | Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive . |
| 6 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 7 | So we are trying to introduce him to the larger world . |