Example sentences of "[prep] him [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she 'd look after him would n't she ? |
| 2 | All four evangelists record the promise of John the Baptist that whereas he baptises in water , the One who comes after him will baptise with the Holy Spirit ( and , according to Matthew and Luke , ‘ with fire ’ ) . |
| 3 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 4 | James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ . |
| 5 | But at least she would be treading in his footsteps , and somewhere along the way a clearer picture of him might emerge . |
| 6 | At the other extreme he sometimes pushed his boys into bed with girls in order to make himself suffer , though a part of him may also have enjoyed the proximity or heterosexual life . |
| 7 | A desperate prisoner , knowing perfectly well what is expected of him may well offer to a chaplain or prison visitor any amount of repentance ; he might even undertake a religious conversion . |
| 8 | ‘ Disposing of him wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 9 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 11 | Then at least something of him would be left . ’ |
| 12 | On the phone the other day you said that if only you and Dennis had had children then something of him would have survived . |
| 13 | Those who spoke ill of him would find it difficult to continue such activity without a jaw to move , he considered , and made a mental note to put one of the Secte Rouge in charge of security . |
| 14 | It was against all he believed in and yet some inner part of him would stop at nothing to attract Jeopardy 's notice . |
| 15 | She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take . |
| 16 | The knowledge she had of him would armour her against belief . |
| 17 | ‘ Part of him would be very pleased that you were laughing at him . |
| 18 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 19 | I 'm here to tell you that if Alan is right and big Arnie ( pictured left ) did the body beautiful business behind the Co that night , anyone who happened to take a photograph of him should send it in to me pronto . |
| 20 | He saw that the intellectual side of him could not be wrong , somehow he must baptize it . |
| 21 | ‘ If a driver knows that any attempt to overtake the car ahead of him will risk a fine or disqualification , then he will not try , ’ the Austrian said . |
| 22 | But my recollection of him will be as a friend and food expert . |
| 23 | This part of him will never sleep . |
| 24 | Salim 's flight to whatever is to become of him can be compared to the movement of these flowers , and to the Romeward journey in Virgil . |
| 25 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 26 | At least one portrait of him can , however , be definitely identified ; it was painted in India by Thomas Hickey ( no relation to William ) . |
| 27 | A failed test means no progress that round , and a test failed by 30 or more means the character has slipped right back to the bottom of the stairs — anyone beneath him must make another I test at -20 to avoid being carried back down as well . |
| 28 | Without technology like this , Jonathon and thousands like him would be debarred from even the simplest form of human interaction . |
| 29 | ‘ There ai n't no trains out , around that time ; and a gent like him would hardly hang about in a station buffet ! |
| 30 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |