Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | And we shall all have to meet him of course . " |
| 3 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 4 | ‘ Go to meet him with Maggie and let her charm him . ’ |
| 5 | The logistics of his complicated destiny involved not only Skunk Kilo , anchored by its FBI crew in international waters , but the USS Butte , a Navy ammunitions ship that had been shadowing the yacht by radar , the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga , standing by with a Navy S-3 jet and an escort of two F-14 Phantoms to fly him to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington , D.C. , two KC-10 tanker aircraft to refuel the S-3 on the way , and 15 carloads of FBI agents to meet him on arrival . |
| 6 | I would have given much to meet him at Elsfield during one of his fleeting visits : indeed there was no one I would have been more interested to meet . |
| 7 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 8 | His complacency remained unshaken when , on Thursday 17 January 1746 , having advanced from Edinburgh towards Stirling he found that the rebels , far from fleeing , had moved forward to meet him at Falkirk , a small town about ten miles [ 16 km ] to the south-east . |
| 9 | Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes — I was to meet him at Glasgow and I was late . |
| 11 | Ramsey was asked to meet him at dinner in Magdalene before the meeting and to second the vote of thanks in the Guildhall . |
| 12 | In June 1860 he invited William , the Prince Regent of Prussia , to meet him at Baden , whose Grand Duke agreed to act as host . |
| 13 | Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it . |
| 14 | Mr Fitzwater added that Mr Bush has invited both the Polish President , Wojciech Jaruzelski , and Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiescki , to meet him in Washington . |
| 15 | DOWNING Street insists that President-elect Bill Clinton is not angry with the British Government and so is not snubbing John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 16 | BILL CLINTON has snubbed Premier John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 17 | The mamluks came out to meet him in battle , but their colourful medieval cavalry was no match for the modern firepower and discipline of the army of France which won a decisive victory at the Battle of the Pyramids . |
| 18 | Pop having to return to Burma for another year with the Governor , and finally my going to meet him in Liverpool when he was sent home at the end of that year very sick , never to return to Burma . |
| 19 | Earlier yesterday Mr Denktash , who heads a breakaway state in the north recognised only by Ankara , invited Mr Clerides to meet him in Cyprus and said holding talks in New York would be futile . |
| 20 | Malpass told me to meet him in Bateman Street . |
| 21 | In the Philippines , however , President Corazon Aquino had refused to meet him in protest at congressional removal of $96,000 from the $481,000,000 in aid originally promised for 1990 . |
| 22 | Are you prepared to accuse him of insincerity ? |
| 23 | ‘ To accuse him of failure because your own ego can not survive the knowledge that a man does not want you ? ’ |
| 24 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 25 | His style of writing caused some to accuse him of rationalism . |
| 26 | Two , he could go along with Marler , pretend to accept him at face value , and this way he could keep an eye on him . |
| 27 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
| 28 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 29 | The notebooks are beginning to pull him into shape with their ‘ NB . |
| 30 | A kick which falls short places the kicker at a distinct disadvantage , because his body weight is totally behind the kick , so that it is easy for his opponent to pull him off balance . |