Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 2 | Ramsey was asked to meet him at dinner in Magdalene before the meeting and to second the vote of thanks in the Guildhall . |
| 3 | In the Philippines , however , President Corazon Aquino had refused to meet him in protest at congressional removal of $96,000 from the $481,000,000 in aid originally promised for 1990 . |
| 4 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
| 5 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 6 | The notebooks are beginning to pull him into shape with their ‘ NB . |
| 7 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 8 | During his eight-day visit , Pohl inspected conditions in a number of Iranian prisons and was greeted on Jan. 23-24 by sit-ins outside the UN office in Tehran by the families of political detainees , demanding to be allowed to provide him with evidence of abuses . |
| 9 | People likely to provide him with ammunition for his little campaigns would n't appreciate an audience any more than they 'd want to be seen tripping up the steps of the council offices to some bloody committee room . ’ |
| 10 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 12 | That failing , there can be a conveyance between the husband and wife , to which the first mortgagee is a party , to release the husband from liability under the first mortgage and take a covenant to observe and perform the same from the wife who will also covenant with the husband to indemnify him in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 13 | Temples and shrines were built to his memory , and a cult grew up to venerate him as founder of the Empire . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll understand that I 'm loath to set him at liberty without some guarantee . |
| 15 | Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her . |
| 16 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you going to receive him in bed like an empress or downstairs in the drawing-room like an innocent ? ’ |
| 18 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 19 | He sat down in a vacant chair and at once the younger cadet hurried to serve him with tea from a spotless samovar . |
| 20 | Given his form , and the contribution he makes , I would have to pick him in front of Rocastle at the moment . |
| 21 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 22 | Even Peter Thorneycroft , the veteran proto-monetarist of 1958 whom she had made Party Chairman , proved to be a ‘ one-nation ’ man at heart , and she was eventually to sack him in favour of a little-tried new favourite , Cecil Parkinson , the Paymaster-General . |
| 23 | And even though you do look like her , and probably even more like the way she did at our age , I ca n't see that being enough to inspire him with over-confidence in you as a special . |
| 24 | Ratso gets Buck an introduction to a man ( John McGiver ) who is supposed to put him in touch with some rich ladies , but he begs Buck to get down on his knees and pray with him under a kitschy lit-up Jesus on the bathroom door of his hotel room . |
| 25 | His GP should also be able to put him in touch with his local ‘ Stroke Club , ’ where he 'll be able to talk about his problems and progress with people in the same situation as himself . |
| 26 | Although happy at first with the series concept as handed to him by Donald Wilson , David Whitaker 's under-lying love for ‘ ripping yarn ’ storytelling was threatening to draw him into conflict with Newman 's wish to present educative and allegorical discussion of social issues within the show 's framework . |
| 27 | The secretary was directed to write to the Master of the Horse , asking leave to nominate him as president of the College at the forthcoming general meeting . |
| 28 | The Camel Benetton Ford driver was outraged at the tactics used by Senna to keep him at bay for several laps . |
| 29 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 30 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |