Example sentences of "[verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Dering declined this contemptible compensation , and risked crippling legal costs on a trial which he hoped would win him heavy damages . |
| 2 | ‘ But you would n't investigate anyone else , because you would definitely consider him guilty . ’ |
| 3 | He 's not exactly Douglas Fairbanks , but some might consider him handsome . ’ |
| 4 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
| 5 | Dr. Jekyll becomes obsessed with producing a drug that can separate ‘ the good and evil personalities of man ’ , but the results of his discovery send him mad . |
| 6 | Because your £6 helps buy him protective clothing and helps us provide him with the best equipped boats . |
| 7 | Because your £6 helps buy him protective clothing and helps us provide him with the best equipped boats . |
| 8 | Pre-empting an expected attack , Yeltsin praised the decision of the Fifth Congress [ see p. 38537 ] to grant him extra presidential powers , and warned of chaos if they were removed . |
| 9 | They were only too pleased to grant him early retirement back in September when they needed to shed staff . |
| 10 | The Countryside Commission were to sign a deal with the Duke of Devonshire in September to grant him Capital Transfer Tax exemption ( estimated to be worth £12,000,000 ) in turn for large parts of this 130km 2 in the Dales becoming a public heritage centre under the Heritage Estate arrangement introduced by Leeds MP Denis Healey in 1975 to prevent the breakup of large estates ( the MP himself having just become President of the National Trust 's Yorkshire Moors & Dales Appeal ) . |
| 11 | His ecclesiastical superiors had deemed him unfit to be a priest . |
| 12 | We want him available for Thursday , ’ added the United manager . |
| 13 | ‘ And I want him alive . |
| 14 | ‘ I want him dead , all the families do . ’ |
| 15 | I want him dead , dead , DEAD ! |
| 16 | Benn added : ‘ I really want him bad . |
| 17 | I want him bad … ’ |
| 18 | On the death of his third wife , Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children . |
| 19 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him considerable work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or contractor with the company in administration , but all of these will be among the factors relevant to be taken into consideration ( post , pp. 862H — 863A , 864C ) . |
| 20 | Unless it rains , the ground should suit him fine , and Richard Dunwoody showed on Thursday just how priceless his assistance can be . |
| 21 | That the mestizo kept his voice down was proof to Trent that the little man , lying , had reported him dead . |
| 22 | And was exonerating him appropriate anyway ? |
| 23 | Hari held out her arms and drew him close . |
| 24 | He grabbed the poor creature by the neck and drew him close , then gazed savagely across at us . |
| 25 | She had sometimes called to find him absent and his mother 's explanation , when she deigned to give one , unconvincing . |
| 26 | She was so stunned to find him close that she never answered . |
| 27 | But those who had made the arrangements for his last moments were not surprised to find him self-possessed and resigned to his fate . |
| 28 | The jury took four hours yesterday after a nine-day trial to find him guilty of five charges of indecent assault . |
| 29 | Thus , it is contrary to natural justice to inform an individual of only one complaint against him if there are two , or to find him guilty of a different offence from the one he was actually charged with . |
| 30 | I do n't think it 's against the constitution that er it would be a bit unusual to find him involved in handling money to be involved in he went to Majorca or Tenerife or in a bid to see each other it 's a possibility . |