Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Bank may — ( a ) by notice in writing served on an authorised institution require it to produce , within such time and at such place as may be specified in the notice , such document or documents of such description as may be so specified ; ( b ) authorise an officer , servant or agent of the Bank , on producing evidence of his authority , to require any such institution to provide him forthwith with such information , or to produce to him forthwith such documents , as he may specify , being such information or documents as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under this Act . |
| 2 | However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back . |
| 3 | Thucydides praises him highly in general terms ( ii . |
| 4 | Baldwin 's mission to Washington took him away from 27 December to 27 January . |
| 5 | An academic takes him away for extensive intelligence tests , but he becomes disruptive and eventually opts to return home . |
| 6 | Tuathal wakened him just after four . |
| 7 | Because the captain had spoken French , Joseph thanked him haltingly in that language , then motioned towards the lower deck . |
| 8 | Napoleon III in his capacity as sovereign had great personal dignity as well as charm , but as an individual his knowledge of human beings and their behaviour set him apart from other European monarchs , whose more cloistered and conventional upbringing had given them a less perceptive outlook on people . |
| 9 | The American woman watched him intently for several minutes , a commotion of half-forgotten sensations stirring within her , but if he had noticed her presence he gave no sign . |
| 10 | Morrissey 's goal was his third of the season leaving him halfway to last season 's tally of six . |
| 11 | Harris still needed character , hard work and some spectacular court coverage to get him home by 1-9 , 6-9 , 9-4 , 9-2 , 9-3 against the local hero who got good support from the crowd to the bitter end . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a torment to see him again after that . ’ |
| 13 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |
| 14 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 15 | He was not brown like Buddie , with crinkly hair and pale palms , but a certain swarthiness of the skin set him apart from all the other boys he knew . |
| 16 | Again , like Marx and the elite theorists he conceives the state largely , if not wholly , in terms of domination ; and this ‘ realist ’ view distinguishes him sharply from those social scientists who , while differing about what the role of the state should be ( how interventionist or laissez-faire ) , agree fundamentally in regarding it as an autonomous and neutral body , which arbitrates among competing claims and expresses the real consensus in society that underlies particular conflicts of interest . |
| 17 | Maura loved him just for those words . |
| 18 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |