Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | the strangeness of that thought suddenly made him miss the château . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His sources do not help him grasp the inconvenient fact that many young men actually enjoy warfare . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had no excuse for going into his part of the house and she had not seen him near the servants ’ quarters since that first afternoon . |
| 9 | ‘ Looks like it , ’ Sarella returned , trying not to let him get the better of her this time . |
| 10 | ‘ Can I help you ? ’ she asked , trying not to let him see the amusement in her blue eyes . |
| 11 | Determined not to let him keep the advantage , she bundled the unwanted attraction she felt for him into a cupboard and locked the door on it , before retorting sweetly , ‘ Well , as your invitation was so pressing , I thought I might as well take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 12 | I had n't noticed that he was carrying , not wearing , it and I certainly had n't seen him take the meat . |