Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 2 | This special tribute in WWF News attempts , however inadequately , to give WWF supporters and staff a picture of what Peter 's many qualities and leadership skills meant to some of those who have been privileged to work with him in a great adventure . |
| 3 | His most effective action so far has been to deflect the corruption allegations by recruiting Spain 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ to stand alongside him as a Socialist candidate . |
| 4 | It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child . |
| 5 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 6 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 7 | His qualities as a Christian king are extolled in a letter addressed to him by a certain Aurelian , who was once identified with the bishop of Arles of that name . |
| 8 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 9 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 10 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 11 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 12 | Appeal from a decision of Macnaghten J. on the further consideration of an action tried by him with a special jury . |
| 13 | The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers . |
| 14 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 15 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 16 | One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand . |
| 17 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 18 | Legal sources said an underground cell was being prepared for him on a maximum security row at the federal penitentiary in Marion , Illinois , America 's most chilling jail . |
| 19 | For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory . |
| 20 | But the others evidently had not , or Rufus had not , walking jauntily and with swinging stride across the tarmac , his stethoscope bobbing up and down , letting himself into the main hospital block , Shiva later saw , by a door marked ‘ Private ’ , which he slammed behind him with a fine disregard for the notices exhorting all to silence . |
| 21 | The boy stood looking round him with a wary face and large , intent eyes . |
| 22 | And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner . |
| 23 | My thoughts went back to yesterday evening and Jock at No. 4 Commando , the damage done to him by a German mortar bomb , his head almost split in two and a leg blown off . |
| 24 | In fact Waugh had just written to him as a stranger to thank him for his ‘ ingenious and delightful allegory ’ — his gratitude all the warmer because , as he flatteringly remarks , he had tried to buy a copy and found it sold out . |
| 25 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 26 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 27 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 28 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 29 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 30 | ‘ This has gone too far , ’ she stormed , rounding on him like a vengeful fury . |