Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott made no secret of Leonard 's ambiguities regarding law , and he sought to ease him into a position nearer to his own , of both lawyer and poet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 4 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 5 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 6 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 7 | On hearing that Harry wished to go up to Melton Mowbray for the day , he offered to drive him in the Bentley . |
| 8 | Wilson , himself a soccer fan , was the same , as Crossman discovered when he went to see him in April 1970 about a set of lectures on Cabinet government he was preparing for Harvard : |
| 9 | He 's got some new ferreting land and erm and when he went to put him in his box there was a ferret already in it but it 's absolutely infested with these sheep tics . |
| 10 | His one hope now lay with Philip and he went to visit him in Paris , the traditional move for all discontented sons of Henry Ii . |
| 11 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 12 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |