Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 2 | On horseback the long reach of the swordsman is supported by his horse , enabling him to use with great effect a weapon that might be cumbersome on foot . |
| 3 | Notice how his long harness lines are enabling him to sail with straight arms thereby keeping the rig upright . |
| 4 | At this stage of his development the karateka seems to be able to sense the movements of his opponents before they occur , enabling him to react with blinding speed and absolute control . |
| 5 | He also said that in the letter he told Mr Wilson that he was held in great esteem among Irish people , qualifying him to engage in political dialogue . |
| 6 | He faces , as well as an increasingly bad-tempered party , a pesky opposition noisily pressing him to push for Taiwanese independence . |
| 7 | The court heard Bedworth , now a student at Edinburgh University studying artificial intelligence , spent hours sitting in his bedroom mastering a £200 Christmas present which helped him hack into hi-tech systems . |
| 8 | His first student essays in photography show him fascinated by natural order and symmetry , the geometry of nature , the abstract face of concrete things . |
| 9 | It had been a blow to learn that he had gone away to spend Christmas with ‘ friends in the country ’ , and she imagined him surrounded by fascinating girls all more attractive than herself . |
| 10 | He leaned and peered a little , but not from any weakness of the eyes , rather out of a fixed suspicion that caused him to study with narrow attention all who came near him , and especially strangers . |
| 11 | He fought four times for his seat on Southampton council before winning it : a result that encouraged him to move into national politics . |
| 12 | One held a knife to his throat while forcing him to drive to nearby Hackney . |
| 13 | It 's a shame we wo n't see him racing on equal terms against Senna or Prost . ’ |
| 14 | I mean , I can remember him quitting after Ziggy Stardust in ‘ 73 , and even at that age I was going ‘ Oh , yeah , sure he 's retiring ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Either you increase my husband 's wages to reflect the work he does on your behalf , or I might find it my duty to persuade him to look for other employment , perhaps with one of the many property owners hereabouts . ’ |
| 16 | James Brown only owed Bance 8s 6d which , if he had paid earlier , he would not have found increased by 3s 6d costs which Judge William Furner ordered him to pay in monthly instalments of 4s on top of his debt . |
| 17 | Managing director and major shareholder Peter Kemmis Betty has been appointed president — a non-executive position but one which will enable him to concentrate on editorial areas , chess and archaeology , in which he has a particular interest . |
| 18 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 19 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 20 | Jaq switched on the magnetics in his boots to give him purchase for possible combat . |
| 21 | But Pat remembers him saying to various children : ‘ Why do n't you lay down at the bottom of the swimming pool for half an hour ? ’ |
| 22 | Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words . |
| 23 | Dalziel watched him go in amused exasperation . |
| 24 | Let Pool enter a few other minds , allow him to see through other eyes . ’ |
| 25 | He was genuinely keen to return to St Augustine 's where his sister was now a pupil and both social work and child guidance were keen to see him return to mainstream schooling . |
| 26 | Seeing him engaged in domestic activity , Tibbles came up to him and began to rub her harsh fur against his legs . |
| 27 | I did n't want him to go to residential school at all . ’ |
| 28 | No le , make it , do n't make him score in extra time just |
| 29 | ‘ But I love you , ’ he said , and even today the memory could make him wince with remembered pain and passion . |
| 30 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |