Example sentences of "of [v-ing] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 2 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 3 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 4 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
| 5 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
| 6 | Meanwhile he had to tread very carefully , because if David suspected that his talk of cutting him out of the business was more than just talk , there was no telling how he would react . |
| 7 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |