Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 32 | You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces . |
| 33 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 34 | Mr Wheelhouse , of Roseberry Crescent , Norton , Stockton , asked him where his money was then hit him on the head with the hammer , knocking him unconscious . |
| 35 | And she had almost lost him by the attempted theft of his best boots . |
| 36 | Millie 's evidently seen him with the slates coming off the roof and the storm cones flying . |
| 37 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 38 | I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended . |
| 39 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 40 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |