Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company was prepared to continue using him for up to a year as a continuity announcer . |
| 2 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 3 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 4 | It was ‘ Gunga ’ the driver of the water truck , he hated the nickname , Gunga Din of cinema fame , and everyone was careful to avoid addressing him as anything other than just ‘ George ’ . |
| 5 | If he did , was Henry going to be able to avoid serving him with any ? |
| 6 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 7 | Tony did n't have time to waste booking him as a support act or doing a club circuit or anything like that . |
| 8 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 9 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 10 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 11 | Then there is the post-Nürburgring view of Niki which apotheosized him : the way the press and the media treated him , you would have thought Richard Wagner was about to consider fitting him into Valhalla and Charlton Heston play him as El Cid . |
| 12 | Keith obviously is still continuing because s again some money was found to keep his , to keep paying him for another few months . |
| 13 | ‘ But if he is n't going to bother , I do n't think it 's fair to the other players to keep choosing him for the reserves . |
| 14 | ( After the war , when Collingwood was discovered by the younger generation , and found to be highly readable and stimulating , the situation was totally different , and the aging linguistic philosophers were obliged to start reading him in self-defence . ) |
| 15 | I 'm now far too devoted to my Mr MacQueen to consider depriving him of my overdraft . ’ |
| 16 | When a person is detained in respect of more than one offence it is permissible to delay bringing him before the custody officer until the above conditions are satisfied in respect of all the offences ( but see paragraph 11.4 ) . |
| 17 | I decided to delay informing him of my visit to the Orne and speaking to the Artillerymen who were sending the shells over our heads . |
| 18 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |