Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But young children had reported spotting him inside the school , putting paper on to the fire . |
| 2 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 3 | Although convicted of taking part in the attack no evidence was brought linking him to the knife . |
| 4 | He remembered one time he 'd walked up here , in May , after she had started seeing him in the afternoons and going for long walks along the canal-side . |
| 5 | At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings . |
| 6 | No one capable of creating kangaroos could have resisted hitting him in the face with a divine custard pie . |
| 7 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |