Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 2 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 5 | If the person indicates that he has nothing more to say the officer shall without delay cease to question him about that offence . … |
| 6 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 7 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 8 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 9 | That the German audience is not deaf to beauty of tone production as some have been so foolish to pretend , is shown by the enormous enthusiasm with which Battistini is greeted when he sings in Germany , to say nothing of Caruso , although one hesitates to mention him in such proximity to so transcendent an artist as Battistini . ’ |
| 10 | For he knew what Susan had done to present him with this daughter , his beautiful Kate , born just 12 years ago , six months after Simon had left their village . |
| 11 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 12 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 13 | A normal family life , he repeated to himself , and smiled almost wanly at the thought of something that seemed destined to elude him for several years to come . |
| 14 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 15 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 16 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 18 | Donaldson read the form through and signed it ; only his silence was needed to keep him from all liability . |
| 19 | They can not imagine him as a Prime Minister , and they can not imagine that the British public can be persuaded to elect him to that post . |
| 20 | A lot of people would like to join him in those sentiments … |
| 21 | Such examples lead on to Nagel 's definition of moral luck : ‘ Where a significant aspect of what someone does depends upon factors beyond his control , yet we continue to treat him in that respect as an object of moral judgment , it can be called moral luck . |
| 22 | John Smith only functions as a goalkeeper when there are others who continue to endow him with that function . |
| 23 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 24 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 25 | I would n't have gone to meet him under any circumstances . |
| 26 | Henry 's wholehearted displays in such a variety of roles , allied to his self-effacing modesty , combined to endear him to all Palace fans of the mid-1980s . |
| 27 | Naturally I would n't want to get him in any trouble . ’ |
| 28 | Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them . |
| 29 | Feared as he was , the townsfolk had gathered to oppose him on several occasions , once when he affronted their God-fearing attitudes by ordering his men to rip the timber fan-faulting from the local church to use in the construction of Lambourn Palace . |
| 30 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |