Example sentences of "him [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 2 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 3 | Of the love , she knew he was growing tired but since her own ardour had considerably diminished after Pilade 's birth she was not disposed to criticise him for this . |
| 4 | We can not blame him for this — he has his career to think of — but we must protest when he puts on his most earnest face and lectures the other two parties . |
| 5 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 6 | Understandably , many of his old flock in Kidderminster severely criticised him for this . |
| 7 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 8 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 9 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 10 | We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives . |
| 11 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 12 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |
| 13 | One of these fine days , when he 's my uncle , I would thank him for this . |
| 14 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 15 | Horrified by the obstructionism of his superiors and unable to make progress , Schiller leaked information to the press and helped fortify the outside criticism , though his superiors decided not to discipline him for this . |
| 16 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 17 | And he er and he was really delighted of course , so he said , Well I 'm holiday and I 'll come round with the caravan , so I had my holiday which did n't make much difference because there was had to you know we were n't working really , and I went round with him for this week , all round and the villages everywhere . |
| 18 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 19 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |
| 20 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |
| 21 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 22 | From the prologues to the Heautontimorumenos and the Adelphoe we know that his competitors had tried to discredit him for this . |
| 23 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 24 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 25 | Potentially , the bastard I 'll get him for this , could be a confession . |
| 26 | Now here 's something to argue about this weekend … what would you say is the hardest … or toughest race to win in sport … football 's league title … formula one … the olympic marathon … how about the jockeys championship … they 've been off and running for six months and leading the chase is Oxfordshire ’ s Richard Dunwoody … we 're riding with him for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 27 | He has n't , they have n't paid him for this car yet |
| 28 | My father had purchased a box of Maltesers , the chocolates with the less fattening centre , to sustain him through this no holds barred erotic horror film . |
| 29 | Charles put on a brave face to the world , but secretly he was in turmoil for many , many months ; and one other person who helped see him through this period was Diana . |
| 30 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |