Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 2 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 3 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
| 4 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 5 | They should never have let him into the RAF — ca n't think why they did n't spot it . |
| 6 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 7 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
| 8 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 9 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
| 10 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
| 11 | Goering could have shot him from the skies . |
| 12 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 13 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 14 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 15 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 16 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 17 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 18 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 19 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 20 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 21 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 22 | He took the view that his agents , the defendants , should have told him of the Perots ' interest in both properties , being material information relating to his sale of Caliban . |
| 23 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 24 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 25 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 26 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 27 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 28 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 29 | As for Joe , who blithely missed a fracture a yard across , she could have pinned him to the wall with a scalpel , she was so cross . |
| 30 | Pure hackit anyhow Ah 'd never have lumbered him in the daylight . |