Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her . |
| 2 | Certified accountant Tony Berry , former chairman and chief executive of the Blue Arrow employment agency and one time darling of the City , faces action by the Department of Trade and Industry to disqualify him from acting as a company director , following publication of a highly critical DTI inspectors ' report into Blue Arrow 's management . |
| 3 | They gave him clothing ( which included a black jacket and striped trousers — my father 's best suit ) and enough food and water to last him until morning . |
| 4 | The burdens and lack of stability of his social community became unbearable and the poet yearns for an age of permanence and simplicity to provide him with an alternative to the real world . |
| 5 | Spurred on by her envious sisters , who convince her that her mystery spouse is really a foul serpent , she arms herself with a lamp to see him with and knife to attack him with . |
| 6 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |