Example sentences of "could [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 2 | She trusted him to look after the Post 's interests before he sold the story to any other outlets , but she did not know whether she could trust him with the story . |
| 3 | When I came up to him , he stood stiffly aside so I could precede him up the stairs . |
| 4 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 5 | But Hoey feels Anderson ( 31 ) , desperately unlucky to be left behind four years ago , has hit the sort of form which could thrust him into the reckoning . |
| 6 | If I could see him at the back I 'll er , I 'll just get the question a bit more clearer and I 'm sure I can help . |
| 7 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 8 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
| 9 | As Harry stood on the platform a minute or so later , watching the train pull out , he could see him through the brightly lit window , still immersed in his paperback , oblivious , it seemed , to Harry 's departure . |
| 10 | Rory could see him through the open door as he crossed from the bungalow , through the yard of machinery and tractors , and into the business block . |
| 11 | With his head turned his face was close to hers and he would stare right at her , maybe thinking nobody could see him in the dimness , or maybe not caring if they did . |
| 12 | We could see him behind the grille over the heads of the crowd . |
| 13 | Do n't misunderstand me , he was a brilliant chemist ; nobody could touch him with the theory . |
| 14 | Hey , you could tape him in the night so he can believe you next time , that he snores ! |
| 15 | Mr Singh could take him to the bus when he was on late shifts and collect him on early shifts . |
| 16 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 17 | On 28 May , the DIA video gear arrived from Lebanon , and on the 29th , he flew home alone with it , having been assured that Mary-Claude and Sarah would be protected until such time as they could join him in the States with Mary-Claude 's sister Giselle . |
| 18 | When he was n't teaching , Malik was usually on the phone , and you could hear him through the wall . |
| 19 | The dealing manager would be hovering breathing down the dealers ' necks like Big Brother , nodding approvingly if they sounded convincing , or else shouting : " You need to be more fucking aggressive " ( so the client could hear him in the background ) . |
| 20 | She could hear him in the room , yet he did n't answer . |
| 21 | You could drag him into the den . |
| 22 | The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers . |
| 23 | However , any observer who remained outside the black hole would not be affected by this failure of predictability , because neither light nor any other signal could reach him from the singularity . |
| 24 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 25 | Philip Winterbottom , Assistant Manager , Archives would like to hear from anyone who worked at Drummonds prior to 1960 and who could tell him about the branch as it was and of any changes or innovations which occurred . |
| 26 | But Ranulf was here and while Corbett bathed and changed his clothing , he wondered how Ranulf could protect him from the secret assassins now stalking him . |
| 27 | She could put him into the scale alongside Joseph and Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse whom she believed culpable of murder , or she could give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 28 | I ca n't think hitting him but I do n't think I could put him over the edge . |
| 29 | The effect of these grants was to place most of south Wales under Despenser 's influence ; only the Earl of Arundel , who was given the lordship of Chirk , could rival him in the Marches . |
| 30 | We very much wanted him to come down to Merstham again when the weather was better , so that we could drive him round the country . |