Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before had she argued so passionately with a man , hating him and wanting him with an intensity that frightened her . |
| 2 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 3 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 4 | These need to be grasped if we are to understand him — and so to make use of him , rather than simply dismissing him as an embittered elitist pessimist . |
| 5 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 6 | ( Harry Chapman was no longer with the club , ill health forcing him to an early retirement . ) |
| 7 | Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent , threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) . |
| 8 | For illustration , Okun suggests that Milton Friedman would accept no leakage , characterizing him as an efficiency-maximizer , while the Rawlsian answer is a 99(0.9) per cent loss , as Rawls is an equality-maximizer . |
| 9 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 10 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 11 | ‘ I hear that you have worked in Africa , ’ said Daisy , fixing him with an accusing stare . |
| 12 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 13 | Joe pushed his tongue into Michael 's mouth , kissing him with an energy that startled him . |
| 14 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 15 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 16 | As part of your slot we would like you to include an interview/chatshow with Mauricio providing him with an opportunity to say something about his work with S.E.R. |
| 17 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 18 | BBC TV issued an apology to Saracens lock Mark Langley after wrongly linking him with an incident that put Gloucester 's Marcus Hannaford in hospital at the weekend . |
| 19 | A white professor has apologised to one of his black lecturers ( who happens to be on the executive of the ANC ) for ‘ treating him as an academic lightweight ’ . |
| 20 | This is like taking for granted the will of the person to whom the request is made and leaving no room for him to say no — treating him as an instrument — whence the tone of excessive familiarity . |
| 21 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 22 | It follows that it would not be possible to prejudice an unwelcome shareholder by engineering a proposed buy-out and committing him to an unwanted mandatory offer obligation . |
| 23 | Vic keeps Baxter in suspense for a few moments , while he reviews the advantages of having him under an obligation . |
| 24 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 25 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 26 | Baburin repeatedly polled more votes than Khasbulatov , because a group of about 150 deputies in the Smena ( " change " ) group , a part of Democratic Russia , refused to support Khasbulatov , accusing him of an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 27 | I 'm not using him as an excuse or anything , but I do feel he 's got a lot to do with the way my life 's been . |
| 28 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 29 | He saw the work that I examined and dealt with , and on the Tuesday , I was saluting him as an inspector . |
| 30 | Consent can adversely affect the normative situation of the agent either by placing him under an obligation or by derogating from his rights . |