Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 2 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 3 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |
| 4 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 5 | In the slow movement , he generally retired into his own thoughts , poetically outlining the melodic shapes with a lyrical softness , but then , suddenly , landing lumpily on a note , as if the reverie had reminded him of a reality . |
| 6 | She , in turn , wondered why they could not understand that she loved their father and had rescued him from a life of solitude . |
| 7 | The Traverse Theatre had been born in the Grass Market in 1962 and that , together with his involvement in the Edinburgh Festival , had sucked him into a travelling show of poets , writers , actors , directors , and hype-merchants from across the western — and sometimes eastern world . |
| 8 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 9 | The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules . |
| 10 | He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made . |
| 11 | Society and its rules had trapped him in a corner . |
| 12 | As the hangers-on increased , he became bitterly aware that his inheritance , far from liberating him , had trapped him in a role he could not forsake . |
| 13 | If he had not tried , they would have dropped him without a word . |
| 14 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 15 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 16 | But then , afterwards , I learned that the other members of the party had accepted him as a bachelor and he had gone along with that . ’ |
| 17 | They missed out on Shearer , who joined Kenny Dalglish at Ewood Park after Ferguson had tracked him for a year . |
| 18 | When he finally surfaced , his mouth stale and his eyes hot and gritty , Lucifer 's atmosphere had already enfolded him like a shroud . |
| 19 | Serfaty , who used to dismiss the human rights movement as bourgeois liberalism , then heard from his family that Amnesty International had adopted him as a prisoner of conscience , jailed for the peaceful expression of his political ideas . |
| 20 | He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death . |
| 21 | His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system . |
| 22 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 23 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 24 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 25 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 26 | His outrageous leotards , sexy routines and snappy catch-phrases — ‘ I want your body ! ’ — have made him into a sort of Linford Christie with a breakfast box . |
| 27 | Anand made the announcement after student leaders had presented him with a petition calling for the lifting of martial law . |
| 28 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 29 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 30 | As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness . |