Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 2 | He tried to break free , but he could not ; there were too many of them , manhandling him along the narrow jetty . |
| 3 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 4 | Teversham and his sergeant closed round Morgan , shepherding him to the waiting Land Rover with meaningless gentle instructions to watch the step , up you go now . |
| 5 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 6 | There was a little crowd underneath him , beseeching him with the heavy solemn common-sense of drunks to ‘ come down and not be a fool ’ . |
| 7 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 8 | Passing him in the cramped area of the cockpit , her bare leg brushed against the coarseness of his knee . |
| 9 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 10 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 11 | Reagan was shown a picture of Calero meeting him in the Oval Office ; he did not know who he was . |
| 12 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 13 | ‘ I fancy you , Matt , ’ Georgina said , leading him through the crowded room . |
| 14 | The next moment he was inside and she was closing the door behind him , then leading him along the narrow hallway towards the living-room . |
| 15 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 16 | Taylor was upset with Platt before the Turkey game for not informing him of the serious nature of the injury but the player surprised him by playing at Wembley with his usual effectiveness . |
| 17 | On occasions a fortunate , or bemused , beneficiary received no less than three charters each confirming him in the legitimate enjoyment of the same right . |
| 18 | Jennie told Katharine to keep pushing with her inside leg and holding him with the outside rein to stop him walking forward . |
| 19 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 20 | Facing him on the other side of the arena was the current Executioner , whom Angel One had watched fighting and killing the previous holder of the office barely a week before . |
| 21 | Cinzia brought them both large measures of whisky and sat down astride the wicker chair in front of the writing desk , facing him over the ridged wooden back . |
| 22 | Facing him across the bleached wooden plank , Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner . |
| 23 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 24 | The priest sat on a bench , facing him across the rough table . |
| 25 | The blood of circumcision , just like the blood of animal sacrifice , could also be viewed as cleansing the boy of his mother 's blood and acting as a rite of separation , differentiating him from the female , and allying him with the male community . |
| 26 | And if he 'd come across any other married woman who kept on buying her husband horses and dogs and fishing tackle and pointing him towards the open countryside while she stayed in town , then he 'd have known exactly what to think . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Rudge dismissed recent speculation linking him with the managerial vacancy at Bristol Rovers by insisting : ‘ It 's all paper talk . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director . |
| 29 | Joining him in the national finals at Derby in a fortnight is clubmate Craig Wake , and Darlingtons Aaron Kelly , John Lee and Jim Smith . |
| 30 | What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ? |