Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 2 | For a small fee everyone was invited to spray him with the foam wherever they wanted — and they most certainly did ! |
| 3 | Although convicted of taking part in the attack no evidence was brought linking him to the knife . |
| 4 | He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face . |
| 5 | Glancing at him , she was tempted to tease him about the sugar he had borrowed earlier , but if she did that it would amount to a tacit admission that he was right about her behaviour . |
| 6 | But , of course , I was determined to take him into the company and his first role for us was Tamino in Magic Flute . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |