Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fear of a ‘ few stern five minutes ’ with his father , who wanted him to leave Battersea Grammar School for the neighbouring public school St. Paul 's , and had arranged for him to have special lessons in Latin verse and in Greek , kept him steadily at school work , although he knew he ‘ could do better at lessons if I wished ’ . |
| 2 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 3 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 4 | Instead his hands were eagerly outstretched , and she moved towards him knowing that life could hold no greater happiness than this . |
| 5 | She bent with him to examine troubled roots , spotted leaves , patchy bark . |
| 6 | Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked . |
| 7 | Sir Alf Ramsey was n't popular with many ( it is n't a manager 's job to be popular ) but every player who played for him had enormous respect and liking for him . |
| 8 | He looked at Bigwig , as though waiting for him to ask another question . |
| 9 | She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’ |
| 10 | I was too busy holding on to the edge of my chair and waiting for him to rise twenty feet in the air . |
| 11 | Ever since Ben Jonson people have thought of him piping native woodnotes wild and not being terribly educated . |
| 12 | Ever since Ben Jonson people have thought of him piping native woodnotes wild and not being terribly educated . |
| 13 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 14 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 15 | That 's why I would n't bet against him nicking that point . ’ |
| 16 | However , a delegation from Japan 's ruling Liberal Democratic Party handed him a message from Mr Kiichi Miyazawa , Japanese Prime Minister , calling on him to allay international concern that North Korea 's nuclear programme is weapons-oriented . |
| 17 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 18 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 19 | " We worked on him getting better rotation with his forearms . |
| 20 | Gates refused to tender his resignation on the grounds that his 8,300 members were depending on him to provide strong leadership in a difficult situation ( The Guardian , 4 April 1991 ) . |
| 21 | We thought about him buying some property and letting it out . |
| 22 | Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence . |
| 23 | It was her present delight , this business with the wax , and Dowd cursed it , given that it fell to him to unpack these treasures . |
| 24 | To be charitable , it 's entirely possible that Platt 's spell with Aston Villa might have led to him speaking broken Brummie . |
| 25 | Then the letter containing the promise declared on is said to specify what the assistance would be , namely , £150 per annum during the uncle 's life , and until the plaintiffs professional income should be acknowledged by him to exceed 600 guineas ; and a further averment , that the plaintiff , relying upon his promise , without any revocation on the part of the uncle , did marry Ellen Nicholl . |
| 26 | The Minister of State is not yet the Foreign Secretary and there is little time left for him to become Foreign Secretary . |
| 27 | Having provided for the acquisition of an outgoing partner 's share , the partners must determine what restrictions should be put on him to prevent any action of his eroding the value of that share . |
| 28 | He shouted at me so I sat under the table and waited for him to put some food down . |
| 29 | As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal . |
| 30 | Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer . |