Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lieutenant-colonel , who had evidently been a close friend in his class at St. Cyr , greeting the new C.O. had addressed him as tu , only to receive a shrivelling rebuff : ‘ Colonel , I must request you to keep your distance . |
| 2 | Strange how he had given that start when he had addressed him as Sir Joseph . |
| 3 | She had never yet addressed him as Sir Joseph , because somehow he did n't look like a sir ; he did n't , in her eyes , fit the title ; he was too young . |
| 4 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 5 | She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … ) |
| 6 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 7 | This pits him against dance , ragga , and hip hop beats . |
| 8 | if you let him though he 'll , he 'll stay up all night and read to you and things like that , but no , just send him to bed . |
| 9 | ‘ Send him to Burleigh ? ’ |
| 10 | If your man really wants to dress up on your wedding day send him to Louise Verity 's Dressing Up Box ( 071 622 7125 ) . |
| 11 | not sending him there , rather send him to Judge |
| 12 | a boys ' school and the headmaster there advised me not to put him there , he said send him to Newport Grammar school it 's the best school in Essex , best grammar school in Essex and he said that my two boys go there |
| 13 | His accusations backed up with the evidence found by Craig would be enough to convict Spencer and send him to prison for some time , once his whereabouts were discovered , for Spencer seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 14 | We are prepared to clobber the ganger working on the Keighley and Worth Valley railway or his notional supervisor , or send him to prison . |
| 15 | His subsequent career has been a switchback which reached its nadir five years ago , when Thomas Hearns produced a devastating right to the chin to knock him out and send him into retirement . |
| 16 | In Denmark the same year Prime Minister Schluter went to the polls after a social democrat coalition defeated him in Parliament and ruled that NATO ships coming to Denmark must be nuclear weapon free . |
| 17 | But although the structure of the city still defeated him in detail , he had got his bearings well enough to know that this could not be their destination . |
| 18 | Churchill , when frustrated by Eisenhower , grumbled that the president was " weak and stupid " , and he later contemptuously dismissed him as Dulles 's " ventriloquist 's doll " . |
| 19 | The king succumbed to the pressure and dismissed him in May 1679 . |
| 20 | He is not ranked by the WBA either but that group would recognise him as champion . |
| 21 | The couple said some of Timothy 's bandages had been removed and they had been relieved they could still recognise him in spite of his severe facial injuries . |
| 22 | ‘ I had never met James alive , so how could I recognise him in death ? |
| 23 | We do need someone like him , but fuck England — I want him at Leeds . |
| 24 | It may be significant that Rose was working for Henry Compton [ q.v. ] , bishop of London , in 1675 , for it was Compton who , in the words of Stephen Switzer [ q.v. ] , was London 's ‘ great Encourager ’ , employing him at Fulham Palace . |
| 25 | Out to provoke Theo into a declaration of loyalty , and at the same time sting him for continuing to belong to a hated class , he charged him with hypocrisy and self-righteousness in refusing to belong to either side . |
| 26 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 27 | Stockton police yesterday arrested a drunken man in Nelson Terrace and charged him with shoplifting . |
| 28 | First , his trustee , Mr Basden , charged him with contempt of court for failing to produce statements of his financial affairs over the preceding five years , and Hooley was eventually committed to Brixton Prison for a month . |
| 29 | And we shall all have to meet him of course . " |
| 30 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |