Example sentences of "this [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this involves him in a vast amount of estate business as well as , he says with a mixture of relish and despair , ‘ this desperate business of patronage ’ . |
| 2 | This led him into a series of acrimonious exchanges , both private and public , with several notable scientists of the day , but mainly with Carpenter and Thomson , whom he also accused of plagiarizing his results , particularly those dealing with the biology of the foraminiferans . |
| 3 | This led him to an interest in hull forms and contact with the well-known naval architect William Froude [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | This provided him with an army of allies — and potential spies — surrounding a wide area of the Livingstone Manor estate . |
| 5 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 6 | This leads him to a much wider generalization that the course of history , over space as well as time , is closely linked to the anthropological map . |
| 7 | This turned him into a hero of the silent majority . |
| 8 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 9 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 10 | Some criticised his method of combating Bodyline by stepping away to cut the ball to the off , but Bradman claimed that this exposed him to a greater risk of injury than the orthodox type of batting . |
| 11 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
| 12 | This put him in a quandary . |
| 13 | They were made of metal and this presented him with a major problem . |
| 14 | This left him with no option but to renew the existing parliamentary alliance between the PRN and the right-wing Democratic Social Party ( PDS ) , the Liberal Front Party ( PFL ) and the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , and to continue without a majority in either house of the Congress , despite the difficulties this would pose for the passage of future legislation particularly on the ambitious and controversial privatization programme . |
| 15 | This leaves him with a personality that is highly developed in one direction at the expense of the rest . |
| 16 | But if the teacher remains the chief articulator of purpose and the planner and executor of method , this leaves him in a fairly exposed position even if lie is surrounded by technical , production and librarianship support . |
| 17 | This pushed him into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by the second defendant . |