Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although she was nervous of putting him to the test , she knew that , sooner or later , she must . |
| 32 | He has at most two years before the next presidential election in which to try to put together a new centre left movement capable of carrying him into the president 's seat . |
| 33 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 34 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 35 | A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July . |
| 36 | Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London . |
| 37 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 38 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 39 | Early in 1918 , a meeting of Unionist leaders considered future relations with Lloyd George and " Bob Cecil and Curzon [ were ] against touching him on the ground that he is such a dirty little rogue " . |
| 40 | Mungo felt like patting him on the back to show him that they sympathized , but the moment passed , and anyway Mr Zamoyski might not have understood . |
| 41 | Wycliffe felt like patting him on the head , but he thanked him and saw him off with his samples , then he went back to his little office and sat staring at the wall . |
| 42 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 43 | When my colleague had said that , with me sitting right beside him , I felt like punching him in the face ; it was that kind of attitude that any campaign would have to fight . |
| 44 | The other day , in America , the driver of my car said : ‘ I do n't know how you can leave her , ’ and I felt like smacking him in the face . |
| 45 | The reasoning behind casting him as the father in The Hooded Owl became clearer by the minute . |
| 46 | I felt like hitting him on the back of the head with a rock . |
| 47 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 48 | And he blamed another girl for getting him into the drugs scene . |
| 49 | ‘ What about getting him through the sump ? |
| 50 | The ward nurses will need information from the patient and his family and from other people who may be involved with helping him in the community . |
| 51 | The defendant was involved in a scuffle with a constable and was successfully charged with obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 52 | Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places . |
| 53 | ‘ I should have stuck with playing him down the middle . |
| 54 | If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ? |
| 55 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 56 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 57 | Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf . |
| 58 | Common Law found a difficulty in protecting him against the stranger . |
| 59 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
| 60 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |