Example sentences of "him [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain Eddie Owen is committed to the idea and is trying to raise , or have underwritten , the £500,000 which will allow him to confirm an order . |
| 2 | The land he rode was marshy , forcing him to weave an intricate course past the more treacherous patches . |
| 3 | Caring for him became an almost full-time job because he could do so little for himself ; and it was difficult for Mary and Jim to go out together , especially as her father grew less able to get around , and he needed a great deal of help at home . |
| 4 | An appointment was made for him to see an orthopaedic consultant who had a monthly clinic in Bala . |
| 5 | Walsh added : ‘ I expect James 's ankle to be right but I 'll probably start him from the bench and let him make an explosive entrance . |
| 6 | It was getting harder every minute she spent with him to pretend an indifference she did n't feel , but she must never let him know how much she loved him . |
| 7 | It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left . |
| 8 | After several rejections the war artists ' committee grudgingly asked him to paint an underground bomb store near Burton-on-Trent in 1942 . |
| 9 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 10 | A landlord may pay a reverse premium to a tenant to ( a ) induce him to accept an onerous lease , or ( b ) to do work on the building . |
| 11 | Mr Paul might be making a great deal of money and becoming famous , and she 'd heard they had asked him to accept an honorary doctorate , whatever good that might do . |
| 12 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 13 | The Dutch tradition of realism , together with his never-sleeping Protestant conscience , forced him to find an outlet for his visions and fantasies subversively , under cover of symbols , by depicting men at work , portraits of common people , street scenes and fields as everyday subjects in an ordinary light , and simultaneously as expressions of a state of mind . |
| 14 | Complaints from some neighbours have forced his landlord and the local council to ask him to find an alternative site . |
| 15 | Peasant farmer weeps as he alleges that ‘ blood test at hotel ’ led to him becoming an unwilling kidney donor Turk tells of transplant ‘ theft ’ . |
| 16 | Towards the end she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care . |
| 17 | In his meetings with legislators Reagan 's personal qualities proved invaluable ; his relaxed and affable manner , his warmth , humour and charm all helped him to establish an unusual rapport with both Republicans and Democrats . |
| 18 | Isabel heard him mutter an oath . |
| 19 | Turning the tables on him drew an expressionless silence for a few seconds , and then he smiled , his eyes gleaming in genuine amusement . |
| 20 | I 'll have him send an escort down to the riverside to fetch in our guest with ceremony . |
| 21 | Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology . |
| 22 | She lifted her head defiantly , wanting to spare him nothing and to make him feel an absolute heel . |
| 23 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 24 | There is a wonderful misery that pervades Tennyson 's poetry which enables him to create an amazing selection of emotions . |
| 25 | The youth may want to buy a motor bike , but his mother wants him to purchase an old car because she thinks bikes are dangerous and will get him into bad company . |
| 26 | In 1720 he speculated successfully in South Sea stock , and this enabled him to purchase an estate in East Sheen and a town house at Queen 's Square , and to consider retiring from business . |
| 27 | Aspects which made him remember an Olvia and mourn the death of that comparative stranger . |
| 28 | Natural aptitude and a career in radio , film and television had helped him become an outstanding communicator — a strength chat not only made him a formidable campaigner , but also equipped him for the business of government in the television age . |
| 29 | Within this simple framework of social resentment it was soon possible for him to nurture an obsessive anti-Semitism , which seems at first to have no specific origin in his emotional experience . |
| 30 | Anything but a lucky accident might well make him look an idiot . |