Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 2 | It was perhaps a strategy for dissuading him from coming round so often . |
| 3 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 4 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 5 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 6 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 7 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 8 | If letting him make love to her was the price for keeping him with her all night she would pay it gladly . |
| 9 | I said to Schur , after reminding him of his promise , ‘ Tell Anna . ’ |
| 10 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 11 | REFEREE Peter Jevons threw a dictionary , so to speak , at Jeremy Tanner , 21 , after booking him during a match between Derbyshire village side West Hallam and local rivals Alvaston . |
| 12 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 13 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 14 | Rachel Still , 23 — who was living with a boyfriend in Wilmslow , Cheshire — drove off with husband Phillip after meeting him for a talk . |
| 15 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 16 | The Pinneys had become devoted admirers of William Wordsworth after meeting him in London during 1795 , and had soon persuaded their father , John Pretor Pinney , that the little-used family mansion in Dorset should become Wordsworth 's temporary home . |
| 17 | Michael Pearson , 19 , of Leeds , battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub . |
| 18 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
| 19 | While the firm would not be compelled to disclose or utilise the information about B when advising A , the fact that it owes a duty of confidentiality to B will not necessarily constitute a defence to a breach of its duty of disclosure to A. If the firm is to be fully protected it must obtain A2 's consent to its acting in the conflict situation after informing him of its conflicting duties and the fact that it can not perform its full duties of disclosure . |
| 20 | Young members of Prescot Swimming club gather round Stephen Orford , a member of the British Wheelchair basketball team , after presenting him with a cheque for £750 on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation . |
| 21 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 22 | Brian Clough , whose side are bottom of the Premier League after six successive defeats , wanted Fozzie back — three years after selling him to West Ham for £750,000 . |
| 23 | I thought it was for more than we are after selling him for . |
| 24 | Scorned girlfriend Kathryn George Harries , 29 , wreaked her revenge at the home of her 75-year-old lover after suspecting him of being unfaithful . |
| 25 | ACTOR Clint Eastwood 's fan club has folded — after asking him in vain for a fistful of dollars . |
| 26 | A Greek court sentenced Muhammad Rashid , a Palestinian , to 18 years in prison on Jan. 8 after convicting him of premeditated manslaughter for his role in the 1982 mid-air bombing of a US Pan-Am airliner over Hawaii in which one person died [ see pp. 36563 ; 36667 ] . |
| 27 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 28 | She knew she had to let him go , but after buttoning him into his coat , she wrapped her arms tightly around him , crying almost hysterically . |
| 29 | Josh had to be squeezed into Clare 's tight weekday schedule : after taking him to the babysitter in Pimlico , she caught another bus to the shoe shop where she worked . |
| 30 | ( And four Los Angeles policemen beating a black man 56 times after stopping him for speeding does not count as better law enforcement . ) |