Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 2 | What he has to come out with is not initially clear , but it becomes clearer when a taste of gay night-life turns him off , and he trails back to his dull wife . |
| 3 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 4 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 5 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 6 | Your Mum loves him . |
| 7 | First opportunity , real opportunity he gets he 's doing everything the town clerk wants him to do . |
| 8 | ( 143 ) Something of this can be learned from " The Way to the Churchyard " ( 1901 ) , an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure . |
| 9 | The present writer owes him a particularly deep debt of gratitude . |
| 10 | 3 The attacker 's body weight drives him head-on into a claw strike that covers the whole area of the face . |
| 11 | ‘ He says the idea of a search fascinates him . |
| 12 | The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve , however , if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar . |
| 13 | But suppose that , as usually happens , the mortgagor is left in possession , and that a stranger turns him out , or tries to do so . |
| 14 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 15 | The description we have of Goldstein 's third assailant fits him pretty well . |
| 16 | Its moral confusion disgusts him . |
| 17 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 18 | He said : ‘ The lad is torn politically because while their president is happy to let us have him on trial , the trainer wants him back for matches . |
| 19 | ‘ No , if Michael was set up then it 's obvious the killer wants him alive . ’ |
| 20 | Cordelia loves him . |
| 21 | He needs therapy and some rehabilitation to enable him to cope with the constant uncertainty of his life and the violent frustration his condition causes him . |
| 22 | The lean wind grips him , twisting and pulling his hair . |
| 23 | The pickpocket is dying out , the Hooligan replaces him . |
| 24 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 25 | He — far less usually she — is an inadequate individual whose lack of sexual capability leads him to rely on an activity which affords sexual pleasure with minimal active participation . |
| 26 | The Beggar reproves him , then turns to practical advice . |
| 27 | His latest outing yet another mediocre teeny-bopper heart-throb movie sees him playing orphan Adam , a young man who rarely speaks ( so no problems in getting through the script ) . |
| 28 | The wind blows him . |
| 29 | Pleasure interests him only as long as its quickening of local awareness contributes to his overall awareness . |
| 30 | He is represented as granting land at Hoo in Kent to an Abbot Ecgbald ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , and a grant of land at Farnham , perhaps dating to 686 , for the founding of a monastery reveals him with authority in Surrey ( CS 72 : S 235 ) . |