Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another requirement is firefighting and first aid so my BP training has come in handy , ’ added Robin , whose wife , Denise , now joins him at the track — as a flag marshal . |
| 2 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 3 | Then the orderly beats him over the head , pumps a couple of .38 's into Mahoney with a silenced gun , turns round and walks out . |
| 4 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 5 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 6 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 7 | If it is windy Tracey will not risk taking him on the roads , and instead exercises him in the school , but she never jumps him . |
| 8 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 9 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 10 | One historian places him with the revolutionary underground : he entertained James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , in 1680 , was eyed by the Rye House plotters in 1683 , and briefly arrested in 1685 . |
| 11 | Since his involvement in struggling does not necessarily imply that he will actually get free , it simply places him before the getting free which he aims to realize . |
| 12 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 13 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 14 | Andrew Simister 's Lennon ( also an excellent performance ) visits him through the cupboard , exhorting him to free his mind with drugs , Indian mysticism and love . |
| 15 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 16 | When the nest is complete the female approaches the male and nudges him in the flank to gain his confidence . |
| 17 | Tempted by his ardour , Ayesha warns him of the danger if she does as he desires . |
| 18 | The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground . |
| 19 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 20 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 21 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 22 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 23 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 24 | If a woman holds a man 's hand as he lights her cigarette and strokes him behind the knees with her foot , is it a secret sign ? |
| 25 | She sees through his unctuous manners to his black-hearted designs , and shoots him on the spot , but it too late , and she is surrounded by Kuomintang forces . |
| 26 | If it wakes him in the night , he gets angry , I 've heard him , not the actual words , just the voice low and terrible . |
| 27 | Cos that allows him to the cost ? |
| 28 | Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc . |
| 29 | His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT . |
| 30 | or tramps him off the kerb and into shit . |