Example sentences of "be [v-ing] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 2 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 3 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 4 | They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit . |
| 5 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 6 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 7 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 8 | Even Radio 1 are tipping him as the favourite ! |
| 9 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 10 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 11 | ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role . |
| 12 | I 'll be seeing him before the match . |
| 13 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 14 | In fact , ’ she added , driven by an unholy desire to be perverse , ‘ I shall be meeting him after the boat ride . |
| 15 | So I 'm kicking him under the table ! |
| 16 | Mrs Prentice , had to wait until 2.20am before she knew that she would be joining him in the House , ousting Tory Energy Minister Colin Moynihan , in the process . |
| 17 | I could be putting him on the spot . |
| 18 | I shall be watching him on the television . ’ |
| 19 | But he might not always meet her calling or her waiting , for men , too , were bidding him to the sound of axe and plough and sword . ’ |
| 20 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
| 21 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 22 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 23 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 24 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
| 25 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 26 | Ten miles away on that December evening , Walter Schellenberg lit a cigarette in the back of the Mercedes which was speeding him towards the castle . |
| 27 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 28 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 29 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 30 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |