Example sentences of "[verb] him [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , they got themselves into a thoroughly embarrassing mess , saying they accepted Gatting 's statement that nothing improper had taken place but sacking him all the same . |
| 2 | Robert Forbes pulled out before his partners were indicted , a manoeuvre which cost him all the accumulated wealth of Lorna Lewis 's golden days . |
| 3 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 4 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
| 5 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 6 | Do n't harass him all the time Jessica you make him neurotic ! |
| 7 | I do n't think he has that many visitors and I feel we should give him all the support we can . ’ |
| 8 | fuck it I 'll give him all the easy ones do n't I ? |
| 9 | I swore to my mother , when she was dying , that if I ever found my half-brother , I would do him all the harm I could . |
| 10 | I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target . |
| 11 | ‘ I will show him all the information we have . ’ |
| 12 | I might go and see him all the same , just to tell him as I 've told you . ’ |
| 13 | Well I could see him all the time see . |
| 14 | I make fun of him , I attack him all the time , but he senses when I 'm ‘ soft ’ . |
| 15 | It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks . |
| 16 | She must call him in the morning , give him all the names she had found , and let the police handle any investigation . |
| 17 | So why not increase his artillery , and give him all the fire-missiles he can carry . |
| 18 | I 'll talk to Seddon — and then you can go and talk to him , and give him all the details he 'll need to make your crime look authentic . |
| 19 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 20 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 21 | She got a cardigan and walked him all the way out the lane . |
| 22 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 23 | Talk to him , tell him all the details of what we have here and see what he says . |
| 24 | They wrangled interminably , he goading her into outbursts of anger just to watch her beauty at its best , she calling him all the names she could lay her tongue to . |
| 25 | Or sometimes Andrew had been so drunk that Iain shouldered him all the way home . |
| 26 | The morning it was announced a vast audience arrived for Ramsey 's lecture and cheered him all the way up to the dais . |
| 27 | Ian is OK — friendly and cheerful — but there 's something about Robert that makes me want to fight him all the time . ’ |
| 28 | And , by giving him all the best lines ( ‘ Yo , District Attorney 's Club , sucker ’ ) and using him sparingly , Mulcahy , and Silver allow Ice to hijack the three or four scenes in which he appears and walk away with the film single-handedly . |
| 29 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He is in for one hell of a battle and we will take him all the way to court if we have to . ’ |