Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission .
2 He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television .
3 ‘ Bailey 's already briefed him on the telephone but he wo n't know you 're in charge of the operation until he gets here .
4 You might see a pair of long johns , then long johns , and a pair of socks , but Paul said they 've opened windows and Trevor said it 's nearly knocked him off the ladder .
5 Millie 's evidently seen him with the slates coming off the roof and the storm cones flying .
6 Duvall was still holding him by the throat .
7 This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer .
8 If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault .
9 And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life .
10 Mr Wheelhouse , of Roseberry Crescent , Norton , Stockton , asked him where his money was then hit him on the head with the hammer , knocking him unconscious .
11 Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place .
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