Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 2 | The Pinneys had become devoted admirers of William Wordsworth after meeting him in London during 1795 , and had soon persuaded their father , John Pretor Pinney , that the little-used family mansion in Dorset should become Wordsworth 's temporary home . |
| 3 | Brian Clough , whose side are bottom of the Premier League after six successive defeats , wanted Fozzie back — three years after selling him to West Ham for £750,000 . |
| 4 | ( And four Los Angeles policemen beating a black man 56 times after stopping him for speeding does not count as better law enforcement . ) |
| 5 | The policeman ‘ assaulted Harold Benn , aged 27 , an amateur boxer , after stopping him in Tooting , south London . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , someone had dragged his unconscious body after slugging him with Dora 's missing golf-club , there might be other shreds of cloth lying about . |
| 7 | A GAMES player shot his lodger after beating him at chess . |
| 8 | The idea of bringing him to justice . |
| 9 | ‘ I was n't thinking of bringing him to justice . |
| 10 | Romana believed the Junta of the Asturias to be ‘ republican ’ in sympathy , and accused it of starving him of supplies . |
| 11 | Hiring Huy would be a very effective way of keeping him under observation , and neutralising the effectiveness of his investigation . |
| 12 | I 've thought of replacing him with heroin . |
| 13 | It was apparent that his attendance at the coming Party Conference must be assumed to be very unlikely , and that the question of replacing him as leader could arise . |
| 14 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 15 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 16 | Why kill the one man capable of leading him to Bernard ? |
| 17 | She therefore proposed that my father should pretend to fall in love with her difficult and very homesick Italian friend so that it would be clear to her parents that there was no hope of getting him for Fiona . ’ |
| 18 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 19 | Instead of telephoning him at work to blame or to demand attention for herself , she responded to the emergency and visited the office with soup and sandwiches to keep them all going through the evening . |
| 20 | The historian and jurist Boris Chicherin , who was predisposed to like him , believed that Alexander had been denied " an upbringing capable of providing him with guidelines in the precarious circumstances in which he found himself " . |
| 21 | The duke 's London residence was Essex House , the property of his brother-in-law , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , another of Rose 's employers , who encouraged him to the extent of sending him to France for the first time , probably early in the 1640s . |
| 22 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 23 | He did not even notice when one of his class became stuck in the hole in the floorboards and was there all day until Endill had the idea of smearing him with butter to slide him out . |
| 24 | Mr Wilson complained to an industrial tribunal that the company had taken action , short of dismissal , against him for the purpose of deterring him from being or penalising him for being a member of the NUJ , contrary to s 23 of the EP(C)A . |
| 25 | We really should sort of take him to football , do n't you ? |
| 26 | Remember I thought of having him in Ireland - I wish I had . |
| 27 | Frankie never made the mistake of approaching him without invitation . |
| 28 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | If he did finally decide , after all , this was n't the job for him , that snide comment should go some way to ensure that Lorrimer stood no chance of succeeding him as Director of Hoggatt 's . |