Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [adj -er] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew he was back from town , had seen him earlier through the window . |
| 2 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 3 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 4 | Grunte had taken him earlier in the year to a lunch at the Connaught Rooms where he ( Malcolm ) had been introduced to Lady Porter . |
| 5 | Ben thought that this was considerable cheek , on two counts : one , he had beaten him earlier in the year in Moscow , and two , Ben had been the faster all year . |