Example sentences of "to [v-ing] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 2 | This sort of behaviour is very irritating and eventually I resorted to giving him a kick . |
| 3 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |
| 4 | The investor if he is going to make money this way , must have a broker who is committed to showing him a profit , as well as earning his commission off him . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ We were very close to showing him the door . |
| 6 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |