Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 2 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 3 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 4 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 5 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 6 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 7 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 8 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 9 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 10 | Franco conducted it on his own terms , however , which meant that it was so gradual as to be barely perceptible at times , and designed to show him in the most favourable light possible . |
| 11 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 12 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 13 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 14 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 15 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norwich , North ( Mr. Thompson ) is grateful for what has been done to help him with the preservation of his local Anglian Regiment . |
| 17 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 18 | They were written to proclaim him as the Christ , the anointed of God , the revealer of the Father , and to elicit the appropriate response of faith and trust in him . |
| 19 | Culley wondered why she 'd decided to let him off the hook . |
| 20 | Specifically , an attempt has been made to present him as the architect of Salisbury Cathedral . |
| 21 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 22 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 23 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 24 | Grand Slam committee administrator Bill Babcock said : ‘ None of us like the situation , but there is undue pressure on him , and we have decided to exempt him from the rule on press conferences for this match , and only this match . ’ |
| 25 | His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award . |
| 26 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 27 | What influence I had with S.B. was now used to persuade him of the wisdom of this course . |
| 28 | Okay , then you would all agree , you 've got to put him through the old P C course . |
| 29 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 30 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |