Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
2 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
3 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
4 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
5 | The other option for a Warlord is to put him on a wyvern or other big monster , but this is n't recommended . |
6 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
7 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
8 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
9 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
10 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
11 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
12 | Peter Verkhovensky is telling him about a religious conversation among some army officers . |
13 | Although the COB Rules provide that no customer agreement is required for an indirect customer as such , the purpose of these provisions is to treat him as a direct customer in the particular circumstances and so that exclusion is irrelevant . |
14 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
15 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
16 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
17 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
18 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
19 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
20 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
21 | A man was watching him from no more than ten feet away , standing still but looking backwards , as if his attention had been drawn to Ross 's sudden appearance . |
22 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
23 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
24 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
25 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
26 | Your only hope is to use him as a shield against the rest of the gang as you break through their line . |
27 | Such inspiration on the captain 's part was to help him towards an OBE , for with England then beating Australia in the first two games of the final , their clean sweep of three trophies out of three was accomplished . |
28 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
29 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
30 | He pulled out a burnet leaf and ate it slowly , concealing his fear as best he could ; for all his instincts were warning him of the dangers in the unknown country beyond the warren . |