Example sentences of "him [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front rode Mr Rochester on his black horse , and with him rode a beautiful lady , her black curls streaming in the wind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Grumpily Dai Huang chose Li Lu , to help him construct a newer , bigger kiln . |
| 4 | The land he rode was marshy , forcing him to weave an intricate course past the more treacherous patches . |
| 5 | A CONVICTED arsonist set fire to a top security hospital after staff allowed him to carry a lighter . |
| 6 | They questioned whether air traffic controllers should have over-ruled Captain Fuchs and insisted on him using a remote runway . |
| 7 | Someone — he ca n't remember who — had dared him to attend a service . |
| 8 | He was arrested , charged with possession of cocaine and only just missed serving a jail sentence when the court ordered him to attend a drugs rehabilitation centre . |
| 9 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 10 | ‘ Shall I tell him to wait a few minutes , Inspector ? |
| 11 | and through him became a founder member of the Fitzroy Street Group , a small society of artists centred on the Soho area who were aware of post-Impressionist developments in France . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Modigliani helped him with the language and , with surprising patience , taught him to wield a knife and fork , to use a pocket handkerchief and to mix in society . |
| 14 | Searching for fossils on Fitzwilliam 's estates at Castor in 1821 , he discovered a large tessellated Roman pavement ; this encouraged him to conduct a series of excavations , unusually systematic for their time , which continued until 1827 . |
| 15 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 16 | He had fled to London in 1828 after the Catholic emancipation bill had been passed , forced to leave his beloved Ireland because his Catholic fervour had led him to kill a Protestant in an argument during the celebrations . |
| 17 | Would any man who was obviously a pathological criminal be allowed his freedom so soon to enable him to continue a career of sexual violence ? |
| 18 | His mordant humour appealed to students , and it was by no means unusual for him to continue a lecture for half an hour in informal discussion with them . |
| 19 | We followed Dick back to the airport and watched him make a ‘ grease job ’ of a landing to conclude his solo flight . |
| 20 | In post-race interviews Dickinson emphasized the difficulties of getting a horse fit and ready for the Gold Cup , let alone winning it , and he confided that the stress and tension of training the five had caused him to lose a stone in weight since Christmas . |
| 21 | They had already tried to get him to mount a rescue mission using his ship . |
| 22 | Mr Brown who 's from Bampton in Oxfordshire was arrested by police who planted cannabis on him to extort a bribe . |
| 23 | He was arrested by police , who he said , planted cannabis on him to extort a bribe . |
| 24 | One night she brought him to see a horror film about the Living Dead , and he was so frightened by the zombies that he fled into the foyer in a panic . |
| 25 | You need to be very patient in trying to convince him to see a doctor . |
| 26 | He was charged with trespassing , and Palm Beach County Judge William Bollinger ordered him to see a psychiatrist . |
| 27 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 28 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 29 | Rafsanjani told a press conference in Khartoum on Dec. 16 that his visit had allowed him to see a country " advancing towards Islamicization " . |
| 30 | The Chief , the Medical Officer , who ever it was , it was a doctor who had said go and see your own doctor , and his own doctor sent him to see a specialist . |