Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His support for Iraq has won him backing from all quarters , from western-educated intellectuals to Muslim Brothers . |
| 2 | H This Contract shall represent all the terms agreed between the parties hereto and the buyer hereby admits that no statement made by the seller or his agent has induced him to enter into this Contract except written statements , if any , made by the seller 's conveyancers . |
| 3 | The Long Parliament tried to have him restored in 1641–2 , but without effect , and from 1644 onwards Sir Edmond Prideaux [ q.v. ] , later attorney-general under the Commonwealth , was somewhat precariously ensconced as postmaster-general . |
| 4 | So this is what has kept him employed through these ‘ misspent ’ years : he has been learning to see , and to live . |
| 5 | To her annoyance , although quite what she 'd expected him to do after that she could n't think , Tammuz grinned . |
| 6 | What had she said to make him look like that ? |
| 7 | With the older boys there are times when leave them alone is the very best policy , you can intrude too much on a pupil who knows what he 's doing ; maybe not doing it 100 per cent successfully , but you 've got to let him get to that point of destruct , as part of his learning process … |
| 8 | Mr Major was saved from a crushing defeat that could have forced him to quit after several leading Tory Eurosceptics yielded to unprecedented arm-twisting from Government whips and constituency chairmen to back down . |
| 9 | There 's no way you could have kept him hidden for this long , and Moshe-Rabaan would have noticed any excess oxygen usage , so he 's a simularity , right ? ’ |
| 10 | It was just that the man he went to see kept him waiting from nine o'clock until almost ten . |
| 11 | How she would have loved to have seen him stumble like some lesser mortal . |
| 12 | He had great respect for Palmerston , but ‘ after the speeches he had heard him deliver on this subject , he would be extremely sorry to obey his edicts on matters of taste ’ . |
| 13 | One day , an important but superstitious client cancelled his insurance policy when the pen Waterman had given him to sign with refused to work . |
| 14 | She had caught him flirting with another woman . |
| 15 | I 've let him go pending further enquiries — he set his solicitor on me . |
| 16 | Of course , you may retort , as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire , that if I am correct in what I am saying , one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test . |
| 17 | years which had seen him play in 62 Tests and make 189 dismissals , at the time the West Indian record by a street . |
| 18 | Jessamy remembered all the times she had seen him look like that in the past , when he had n't wanted her to know what he was thinking or feeling . |
| 19 | He wondered what on earth had made him talk like that and why had he told McEllhoney of all people ? |
| 20 | Shallowness had saved Beador — that very shallowness which had enabled him to engage in such monstrous debts when he had nothing to meet them but his partner 's money . |
| 21 | Mortimer swore that he intended no harm to Lancaster , and the Bishops of Winchester and London were sent to persuade him to attend after all . |
| 22 | At the end of the day Child and I were cursing our luck and Douglas Hamilton was waxing lyrical about the placidity of the beasts , who had allowed him to come within six yards of them . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't much fancy leaving him hanging like this . ’ |
| 24 | Despite Mozart 's unkind comments on the failing vocal powers of the ageing Mannheim tenor Raaff , some instinct had warned him to keep on friendly terms with the singer , for whom he had written an aria on the way back from Paris . |
| 25 | Stuttgart , beaten by Leeds in the European Cup earlier this season , have closely monitored his progress at Carrow Road and have had him watched on several occasions . |
| 26 | Until the two old ladies with their umbrellas shattered his dream , he had walked through the streets of Brighton as if it were his own kingdom , doffing his flat cap to passers-by who could n't help hearing him coming from two blocks away . |
| 27 | Well , on the specific issue , which is item one three two , are we agreed that we write quite clear but nonetheless firm letter to Mr Patten , explaining that we are minded to ask him to comment on these matters , it this time comes from the Chair and the Chief Officer about and perhaps he will therefore take it more seriously . |
| 28 | When Willie Ofahengaue gets going he takes an awful lot of stopping , so the Baa-Baas need to prevent him getting into top gear . |