Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 2 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 3 | Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil . |
| 4 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 5 | Other Lancashire businessmen watching his progress had come to respect him as a red-hot entrepreneur and ruthless opponent in business dealings , for whom profit was the consideration that overrode every other . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 7 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 8 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 9 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 10 | Pablo Escobar , the leader of the Medellín drug cartel , escaped from La Catedral prison in Envigado , a few kilometres from Medellín , on July 22 as an attempt was made to transfer him to an army barracks . |
| 11 | By April of 1824 he had failed to abate the nuisance , and it was decided to present him with a formal notice to desist . |
| 12 | However much the family sat and planned and prepared to scold him after a frightening bender , he would soon have them all melted with his gypsy stories . |
| 13 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 14 | Then , turning towards his injured companion , ‘ We 've got to get him to a hospital , he 's hurt bad . ’ |
| 15 | But on May 28th Mr Giuliani was cock-a-hoop with the news that Mr Badillo had agreed to join him in a ‘ Republican-Liberal alliance ’ against Mr Dinkins . |
| 16 | His actions had caused him to be one of the most reviled prisoners among the white community , and the government had hitherto refused to recognize him as a political prisoner . |
| 17 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 18 | A commission of magistrates and theologians from the University of Louvain was appointed to examine him in a long-drawn-out process in which translations of his heretical works were prepared by Philips ; written charges and rebuttals in Latin passed to and fro between the Commission and Tyndale , followed by oral examinations . |
| 19 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 20 | Claudia lost her breath ; this was intolerable — not only had she been forced to accompany him on a wild chase after Garry Turner , but she was being subjected to what amounted to sexual harassment . |
| 21 | Even more puzzling is why , throughout the five and a half years Blake was in Wormwood Scrubs , no action was taken to move him to a more secure establishment . |
| 22 | ‘ I have always tried to take him as a melancholy warning ’ ( wrote Tolkien in 1964 ) , so the danger was seen . |
| 23 | His lengthy sabbatical and lack of match-fitness have combined to push him into a deeper , more thoughtful role . |
| 24 | Police were sent to arrest him on a charge of attempted murder , but in the ensuing melee the Rajah was shot dead . |
| 25 | So she tried not to feel envious when Jill Herbert was sent to help him with a lumbar puncture . |
| 26 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 27 | She genuinely cares for the boy and is determined to save him from a life of crime . |
| 28 | The christian name of ‘ Shallowe of Hollendon ’ , owner of a small property in Singleborough , Bucks. , is illegible , and since this is the sole reference to him one is almost tempted to dismiss him as a fictional character ! |
| 29 | While the preparations went ahead , Maria Teresa chattered about who was there and who was n't , of the rumours about the King 's plans to lead an expedition to Morocco and whether her brother would be chosen to accompany him as a gentleman adventurer . |
| 30 | Otherwise one might not have minded asking him for a loan . |