Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love and honour alike required him to choose the outcast . |
| 2 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 3 | ‘ This lady , ’ said Paviour , stepping aside to allow him to follow the mild gesture that indicated Charlotte , ‘ pulled you out . |
| 4 | Reason tells him he is mad to want to continue farming , but the desire to do so leads him to rationalise the decision as best he can . |
| 5 | There is no legislative assembly although on Nov. 8 , 1990 , King Fahd announced that a long promised Consultative Council ( Majlis al-Shura ) would be set up to help him run the country without specifying a date for its creation . |
| 6 | the strangeness of that thought suddenly made him miss the château . |
| 7 | One of these areas was Russia , especially because the interest that his work had aroused there made him consider the previously unthinkable possibility of a communist revolution occurring in that country . |
| 8 | I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’ |
| 9 | They did not want him to make the comparison himself . |
| 10 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 11 | But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him . |
| 12 | This did not prevent him joining the revolt of Henry , third Earl of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , against the corrupt government of Queen Isabella [ q.v. ] and Roger Mortimer , first Earl of March [ q.v. ] , in 1328 . |
| 13 | Paisley was back in prison , this time for his part in the Armagh demonstrations , but that did not stop him characterizing the Cameron Commission as a betrayal of the Ulster people to the rebels . |
| 14 | Southwark Crown Court 's senior judge , Gerald Butler , QC , said recently enacted legislation did not allow him to take the man 's 30-year-old record into account . |
| 15 | His sources do not help him grasp the inconvenient fact that many young men actually enjoy warfare . |
| 16 | I did n't want him to hit the driver because accuracy was the key to this hole , and I said , ‘ You 're not going to have it . ’ |
| 17 | Besides , the words could be construed as flirtatious , and she did n't want him getting the wrong impression again . |
| 18 | Heartily wishing she had never been provoked into volunteering that piece of information , Fabia did n't want him getting the idea that at twenty-two she could n't be a too well-seasoned journalist . |
| 19 | I did n't want him to hear the reluctance in my voice , so I squeezed his hand again . |
| 20 | This can be illustrated by a sentence in the active such as They did n't see him cross the street , which in fact usually implies that he did cross the street , even though he was not seen doing it . |
| 21 | And it did n't help him to know the scholars found it equally obscure . |
| 22 | I take it from what you say that you do n't want him to see the child ? |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want him to take the ball off the back four and stroll around in areas where play might break down . |
| 24 | ‘ And I do n't want him to take the rap for something he did n't do . ’ |
| 25 | We do n't want him to get the wind , do we ? |
| 26 | Do n't expect him to do the same . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't see him storming the barricades . ’ |
| 28 | Therefore I do n't mind him hearing the very worst about my past . |
| 29 | To be fair , she could n't recall actually hearing him say the boat was his , but he certainly had n't corrected her when she had assumed him to be the owner . |
| 30 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |