Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not prevent my father from tricking him into marrying me instead of Rachel . |
| 2 | Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " . |
| 3 | It may be significant that Rose was working for Henry Compton [ q.v. ] , bishop of London , in 1675 , for it was Compton who , in the words of Stephen Switzer [ q.v. ] , was London 's ‘ great Encourager ’ , employing him at Fulham Palace . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 5 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 6 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 7 | It was just in the process of digesting the Islamic revolution which had set the last of the Shahs , Muhammad Reza , on his unhappy way to exile , illness and death , the last finally overtaking him in Egypt . |
| 8 | Like coffee , legend surrounds the beginning of tea drinking and it is also reputed to have kept awake an ancient priest throughout a long vigil , stimulating him with its caffeine . |
| 9 | ‘ I need only a letter from you to your bank manager instructing him of your wishes . |
| 10 | This means that they must refrain from instructing him about what he is to do … " ( p. 295 ) . |
| 11 | It is his letter of March 1094 to the bishop of Salisbury , instructing him in the name of himself and the king to take action about the case of the daughter of the king of Scotland , who had left the nunnery at Wilton and who — as Anselm and King William had agreed — was to be forced to return . |
| 12 | Again , Atrakhasis was warned , the god instructing him in a dream to build a boat , take on board his family and animals , and explain his action to his fellow men as a punishment inflicted upon him which would bring benefit to them . |
| 13 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 14 | leather-covered armchair , the back of which is extended to form a hood over the occupant 's head , thus protecting him from draughts in the hallway of a mansion , where the chair would be situated . |
| 15 | He realized it was shielding him , protecting him from the gunfire . |
| 16 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 17 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 18 | Common Law found a difficulty in protecting him against the stranger . |
| 19 | ‘ They 're tearing him into four , ’ said Snodgrass . |
| 20 | And what he enjoys even more is the knowledge that their affection is based upon patronizing him from what they take to be their greater radicalism ; while in fact , under the surface , he is more radical than they will ever be . |
| 21 | He had dreamed about Mr Whistle , picturing him as a child-sized man in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit , with floppy velvet bows and knickerbockers , his head a white eggshape , featureless but for a shark 's gash of a mouth . |
| 22 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
| 23 | Dr Neil , cradling him in his arms for a moment before handing him to McAllister to care for , wondered not for the first time on such occasions whether he had done the baby a favour by enabling him to live . |
| 24 | He assisted Marsh up the steps to the box and , seating him in the signalman 's battered but comfortable old armchair , reported the incident to the train control , requesting medical assistance for the unfortunate guard who was obviously unable to continue his dunes . |
| 25 | Romana believed the Junta of the Asturias to be ‘ republican ’ in sympathy , and accused it of starving him of supplies . |
| 26 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 27 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 28 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's kind of you to make me so welcome , ’ she said , dazzling him with a very personal smile . |
| 30 | Divided into six chronological sections which plot Gris ' activity from the winter of 1910 , when he began to create Cubist pictures under the inspiration of Picasso , until his death in 1927 , the exhibition challenges the traditional view of the artist as the logician of Cubism by revealing him to be a more unpredictable and experimental artist . |