Example sentences of "him [verb] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example is provided by one Parkinson , a Victorian clean-up campaigner , whose moral objection to " public dancing " led him to allege that a ballet at the Royal Aquarium had involved a Japanese female catching a butterfly " in the most indecent place you could possibly imagine . " |
| 2 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the second act , the door beside him opened and a woman slipped in to the back of the hall . |
| 4 | ‘ A year later Hugh Butterworth , chief executive of Clark Whitehill , wrote to him saying that a copy of Mr Young 's will , which included names of most of the investors , had been sent to the Revenue without Clark Whitehill 's permission . ’ |
| 5 | It is simple enough for him to show that a boxing match takes place within a general totality of ‘ boxing ’ , which is itself only ever present in any individual incarnation , for as a game each match is both an individual bout and something conducted according to general rules and a specific social tradition . |