Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy was awarded a Benefit on Wednesday 15 April 1931 against the Combined Universities , but a knock in the League match on the previous Saturday prevented him from playing — so he appeared as linesman instead ! |
| 2 | He did , however , mention his Stunt Bat which Graham Mackereth gave him for giving a speech . |
| 3 | For shocked managing director 's wife Anne Bevins accused him of producing ‘ hard-core pornography ’ in her office . |
| 4 | Becky cautioned him against rushing into another venture before they had discovered what their profit margins were like , and then only if the rather elderly assistants knew what they were up to . |
| 5 | Bishop levelled his gun , but Tiw prevented him from getting a clear view of the target . |
| 6 | Whenever Minton entered Mr Alexander greeted him by leading the band into one of his two favourite songs : ‘ My Very Good Friend the Milkman ’ or ‘ I 'm Gon na Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter ’ . |
| 7 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 8 | He won 52 caps for Scotland but there is no doubt that a mixture of club commitments and the carry-on in Copenhagen prevented him from winning many more caps . |
| 9 | Thereafter D'Ewes accused him of doing his utmost to ‘ kindle a fire ’ between England and Scotland and to hinder a church settlement on Presbyterian lines . |
| 10 | Leeming tried to speak , but Duncan silenced him by putting his finger to his lips to soothe him , to help relax him . |
| 11 | Grateful for the Burford man 's help , Seb told him of finding Anna in the Wychwood Forest , adding , ‘ It 's lucky she did n't die before we found her . |
| 12 | Sarella hated him for putting it so starkly . |
| 13 | He helped Calamy list the ejectees of 1662 , and Strype thanked him for supplying transcripts . |
| 14 | It was as sharp as Tim 's had been when Oliver accused him of stealing . |
| 15 | Gareth told him about finding one 's way back to places by blazing the trail . |
| 16 | Knighton defied him by signing ‘ Midget ’ Moffat from Workington . |
| 17 | Leonard talked him into giving him a lesson . |
| 18 | Once again raising the issue of Clinton 's avoidance of service in the Vietnam war , Bush denounced him for having participated in anti-war demonstrations while residing as a student in the UK , and also questioned the nature of a European holiday in 1969 in which Clinton had visited Moscow . |
| 19 | On May 29 de Klerk postponed a scheduled visit to the USA , thereby avoiding the likelihood of controversy if Bush saw him before seeing Mandela . |
| 20 | He blamed himself for letting Jess persuade him into running off . |
| 21 | He seems to have allowed his awareness of the different native languages of Britain to lead him into defining Oswald 's Anglo-British imperium in excessive terms . |
| 22 | Britain took him for granted . |
| 23 | Lydia greeted him without smiling , which is a chilling expedient , usually employed only after a row has taken place . |
| 24 | And he turned on Mr Major to accuse him of running ‘ a regime unwilling to tolerate dissent and afraid of views different from its own ’ . |
| 25 | They were there together until 1771 , when Eleanor Coade sacked him for representing himself , instead of herself , as the proprietor of the factory . |
| 26 | The first is that George shot Lennie to stop him from getting in to more trouble . |
| 27 | Pauline sold him at weaning and he is now another family 's pride and joy . |
| 28 | When Curzon taxed him with setting in motion ‘ a revolution … which will probably lead by stages of increasing speed to the ultimate disruption of the empire ’ , Montagu replied , aghast : ‘ Surely you did not mean this ! ’ |
| 29 | For a frustrated moment Maria suspected him of doing it deliberately , to punish her , or perhaps to teach her some sort of lesson . |
| 30 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |