Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 2 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Kant thinks , for example , that one who breaks a promise , because it is going to land him in personal difficulties to keep it , can not will that everyone would break their promises in these circumstances , for the situation in which no one kept promises which it turned out in the least difficult or vexatious to keep is an impossibility . |
| 7 | A lot of people would like to join him in those sentiments … |
| 8 | Rising stars like Phil Tufnell , Chris Lewis and Graeme Hick have never shared a dressing room with him purely as a team-mate , getting to know him on equal terms . |
| 9 | She began to shower him with desperate gifts . |
| 10 | But then the electors of Leyton decided to reject him amid tearful scenes , strangling his political career . |
| 11 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | None of these were things that had been known to occupy him on other mornings . |
| 14 | I would n't have gone to meet him under any circumstances . |
| 15 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 16 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And I spring out of bed , naked as I am , and I just start to tear him to fucking pieces . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 21 | Wright , who lent him money that he never repaid , continued to consult him on technical matters after he left Derby ; Burdett in turn seems to have procured purchasers for some of Wright 's pictures , including Washington Shirley , fifth Earl Ferrers [ q.v. ] , and Catherine the Great . |
| 22 | But if he has had dealings with such moneys then those moneys were the business of the plaintiffs as well as the business of Mr. Tully and he can not fairly tell the plaintiffs to cease to bother him about those moneys . |
| 23 | The nettle-rash got somewhat better in time , but it continued to bother him at regular intervals for the next 20 years . |
| 24 | The report said Mendoza had met Toshack to censure him over stormy relations with his players and high-handed treatment of the media . |
| 25 | Thames Water Utilities wanted to put him on light duties . |
| 26 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |