Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 2 | It was not a pleasant emotion , but it was a powerful enough one to have sustained him in the search when evidence was lacking . |
| 3 | What 's worse , it seems to have blinded him to the facts of Liverpool history . |
| 4 | This underlines perhaps the damage done to him by his father 's death , which appears to have robbed him of the memory of many of the normal sensations . |
| 5 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 6 | The weight in his heart seemed to have tethered him to the pavement , and he had to force himself to turn away , and some seconds after she had disappeared through the doorway . |
| 7 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 8 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 9 | But , feeling glad to have got him off the subject of how apparently her virginal innocence did not tie up with her being a married woman , ‘ Well , if you do n't mind , I 'll just collect my car and head back to England , and — ’ |
| 10 | The crucial importance of the stabilising influence of Rirette in Nizan 's personal development can not be overstated , and there are certainly grounds for drawing a parallel between , on the one hand , the blossoming at a distance of Nizan 's love and affection for Rirette , with the consequent calming of personal anxieties , and on the other , the burgeoning at a distance of his hatred and hostility for those political , social and cultural forces in French society which he considered to have led him to the brink of suicide and despair . |
| 11 | Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts . |
| 12 | His new album Goodbye Jumbo seems to have put him at the top of the list of those eager to nominate a spokesman for the green generation . |
| 13 | After playing the gregarious cocaine fiend , Tad Allagash , in Bright Lights , Big City with his friend Michael J Fox ( who is rumoured to have suggested him for the role ) , he began researching his part in Young Guns . |
| 14 | It was an important occasion because his uncle was to have initiated him into the mysteries of handling langoustines . |