Example sentences of "him [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scotland Yard , ’ he informed Mr Multhrop severely , taking him for the doorman as he marched through the doors of the Imperial Hotel . |
| 2 | I 've tried without success to recruit him for the CPRE and the Friends of Spaxton Theatre . |
| 3 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 4 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 5 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 6 | He commends him for the wit and wisdom of things he has n't said . |
| 7 | I said cos I shall phone the bank first thing Monday and I shall say right , he 's took the car so you can run to him for the money cos you 'll be getting none out of me . |
| 8 | I do n't want him to say well she did n't come round , she did n't ask me for the money , I mean I have n't ask him for the money and , he 'd like to on a Friday , when one come up , when the next one comes you can you ? |
| 9 | However , normally one contact man from each of the units is transferred to the staff of the project manager and is responsible to him for the work that is done in his unit . |
| 10 | Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife . |
| 11 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 12 | There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort . |
| 13 | A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry . |
| 14 | This house belonged to a shipyard owner , but the Navy took it from him for the duration and now it 's a hostel for Wrens . |
| 15 | City of London magistrates fined him for the refusal but ruled he could keep his licence . |
| 16 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 17 | I shot him between the eyes and then I was off , down the smallest streets , and I did n't stop pedalling until I was back in this Villa Baderini , which , as a matter of fact , used to be my father 's . |
| 18 | Maltote slumped down on the stool , his long sword catching him between the legs and nearly tipping him over on his face . |
| 19 | Jekyll 's servant , Poole , let him in at once and took him through the kitchen and across the back garden to the laboratory behind the house . |
| 20 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 21 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 22 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
| 23 | They followed him through the fern and very soon came upon another , parallel path . |
| 24 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 25 | Bugs creep around him through the tendrils and quite near a thrush is singing . |
| 26 | Lewis reached his third Test fifty before edging a flowery drive , and Salisbury recovered from an excruciating blow on the box from Waqar to bang him through the covers and generally give the impression that he might soon be worth a sport higher than No. 9 in the order . |
| 27 | The taxi took him through the city and up into the countryside beyond the lake , where the Amner clinic commanded its famous views . |
| 28 | The thought of winning a Championship medal also helps him to endure the pain he still suffers , though both Ron Atkinson and Graham Taylor — the latter signed him for Villa — have learned to nurse him through the week and preserve his talents for match-days . |
| 29 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 30 | This was Rosalind Hatch — Roz — and she greeted Cowley coolly , but courteously , before leading him through the house and into the rear garden . |