Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another requirement is firefighting and first aid so my BP training has come in handy , ’ added Robin , whose wife , Denise , now joins him at the track — as a flag marshal . |
| 2 | Then the orderly beats him over the head , pumps a couple of .38 's into Mahoney with a silenced gun , turns round and walks out . |
| 3 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 4 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 5 | If it is windy Tracey will not risk taking him on the roads , and instead exercises him in the school , but she never jumps him . |
| 6 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 7 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 8 | Andrew Simister 's Lennon ( also an excellent performance ) visits him through the cupboard , exhorting him to free his mind with drugs , Indian mysticism and love . |
| 9 | When the nest is complete the female approaches the male and nudges him in the flank to gain his confidence . |
| 10 | Tempted by his ardour , Ayesha warns him of the danger if she does as he desires . |
| 11 | The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground . |
| 12 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 13 | She sees through his unctuous manners to his black-hearted designs , and shoots him on the spot , but it too late , and she is surrounded by Kuomintang forces . |
| 14 | If it wakes him in the night , he gets angry , I 've heard him , not the actual words , just the voice low and terrible . |
| 15 | Cos that allows him to the cost ? |
| 16 | His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT . |
| 17 | or tramps him off the kerb and into shit . |
| 18 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 19 | ‘ He blames him for the press not being here , ’ Celia said . |
| 20 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 21 | This was Il Giasone ( 1649 ) which shows him at the height of his powers in the melodious aria with violin imitations ( e.g. Jason 's ‘ Delizie contente ’ , Act I , SC.2 ) , in drama ( e.g. Medea 's conjuration , Act I , sc . |
| 22 | Councillors should know beforehand what they are expected to discuss and a councillor may absent himself if nothing really concerns him on the agenda . |
| 23 | His examination of a number of important constitutional conventions leads him to the conclusion that they are united in character by the possession of a single purpose — to secure that Parliament and government are ultimately subject to the wishes of the electorate . |
| 24 | She leads him by the hand , and from a distance they resemble those drawings of Christopher Robin dragging Winnie The Pooh along the ground . |
| 25 | The judge goes over the dog and then assesses him on the move , at the end of which the dog receives a written critique and a grading , which is symbolized by different coloured ribbons : red for first , blue for second and yellow for third . |
| 26 | But Blain-Thomson will be able to tell you more then he gets him on the table . |
| 27 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 28 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 29 | Her death delivers him from the ordeal of divorce , as frequent as funerals are in his books . |
| 30 | Man , by contrast , has the potential to make this ability subject to conscious control , and it is this very difference which clearly divides him from the animal world . |