Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 2 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 3 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 4 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 6 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 7 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 8 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 9 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 10 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 11 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 12 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 13 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 14 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 15 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 16 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 17 | ‘ They ’ tried to send him to music lessons but he preferred to sit and copy an uncle who played boogie-woogie . |
| 18 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 19 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 20 | His background , therefore , and some aspects of his personality , seemed to fit him for government . |
| 21 | And in his case , too , God intervened to save him from death . |
| 22 | He broke off , apparently only to finish his drink , but then as he sat hunched in his chair contemplating his empty glass some overpowering depression seemed to crush him into silence . |
| 23 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
| 24 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 25 | 12.40 : Saw Deputy Head re incident and arranged to see him with Class Teacher in his office when I have completed my dinner duty . |
| 26 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 27 | Vega went ahead with his set , playing material from his recent ‘ Deuce Avenue ’ album , while the audience began to shower him with beer and spit . |
| 28 | Vega went ahead with his set , playing material from his recent ‘ Deuce Avenue ’ album , while the audience began to shower him with beer and spit . |
| 29 | To his considerable credit , he persisted with the cause of press freedom even when his stand threatened to take him to gaol 20 years ago . |
| 30 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |