Example sentences of "[conj] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents of young children , with so many other calls on their time and affections , might find it harder to cope with a difficult infant , to integrate her or him into the family — while resentful siblings could cause additional strain . |
| 2 | ‘ Because he stayed in the bath too long and got shrunk , ’ said his grandad , who could never get into the bathroom when he wanted to because William or his mum were usually there , her in the bath or him on the lavatory reading a comic , which was one of his little pleasures in life . |
| 3 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 4 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |
| 5 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 6 | There are worse men than him in the world ! ’ |
| 7 | because him in the Post Office said I was . |
| 8 | ‘ I longed to be as good as him in the schoolroom , ’ she says . |
| 9 | They would be on the same corridor as him in the Embassy 's accommodation annexe , and later they would talk through the case history together . |