Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had hoped for Pascoe 's sake that the MacQuillan affair would fade from his mind , but perhaps his memory was already concealing from him the truth about the killing . |
| 2 | Matthew Prescott was a nice man , even though she could not imagine ever feeling about him the way she did — had — about Cameron . |
| 3 | These attitudes transposed easily to the Commonwealth point of view , class warfare and nationalist agitation both arousing in him the same confidently emollient response . |
| 4 | Now stealing from him the natural flesh ? |
| 5 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |