Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard suffers from narcolepsy … a condition of the brain which causes him to fall into a sudden , uncontrolled and spontaneous sleep several times a day . |
| 2 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 3 | Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges . |
| 4 | He sometimes borders on triteness , but more often his straightforward approach allows him to speak in an authentic language which is easily understood and brilliantly evocative . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’ |
| 6 | In charge on a caretaker basis since the October sacking of John Beck , Johnson had hoped his side 's Coca-Cola Cup defeat of Premier League Oldham on Tuesday would have seen him appointed on a permanent basis . |
| 7 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 8 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 9 | Standing off-set can present a smaller target area to the opponent and , by forcing him to strike at an alternative area , can trap him into leaving himself wide open . |
| 10 | In this context , Edward s assumption of the title and arms of Ring of France at Ghent in 1340 is of the utmost significance , for it allowed him to pose as an alternative government in France and attract the loyalty of those who for whatever reason were discontented with Valois rule . |
| 11 | Minton 's continuing involvement with the River Thames is also affirmed by his illustrations for John Herbert 's essay , ‘ London 's Port and River ’ , in the book Flower of Cities , published in 1949 , and which allowed him to draw upon a well-developed vocabulary , with freedom and confident mastery . |
| 12 | ‘ I was at the first-night party of Come Blow Your Horn , ’ said Braden , ‘ and remember being completely fooled by his American accent in the play , so I was very surprised to hear him talking in an English accent afterwards . ’ |
| 13 | She had had him pegged as an emotional lightweight , probably good at his job in a technical sense but untroubled by messy feelings . |
| 14 | With Sissy she eventually discovers him lying in a disused mine shaft , and is with him when he dies . |
| 15 | In order to explain the different findings obtained according to whether the interviewer sat behind or in front of the subjects , Gur ( 1975 ) suggested that when the interviewer sits opposite the subject the latter 's anxiety level is increased which leads him to reply in a characteristic mode of thought . |
| 16 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 17 | As they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm just asking you to think about it , ’ I heard him say in a calm voice . |
| 19 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 20 | His supporters say his energy has enabled him to succeed to a large extent in holding the Palestinian movement together during a series of splits and crises . |
| 21 | ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) . |
| 22 | From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne . |
| 23 | Once , the script required him to jump through a plate-glass window . |
| 24 | Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl . |
| 25 | Controllers urged him to make for a remote runway which would take him over fields and small villages . |
| 26 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 27 | Paige watched him go with a sinking heart . |
| 28 | In fact , the point of having him played by a 6-foot 10inch ( 2.1-m ) Nigerian student , Bolaji Badejo , plus a rather less tall stuntman , was largely lost . |
| 29 | Some time later a creditor did succeed in having him removed to a sponging house , where friends subscribed £500 to make life more bearable for him . |
| 30 | Ultimately , he says , he opposed it since it would mean terminating the 386BSD project , an action CSRG has taken , as well as having him renege on a published promise to produce freely accessible 386 code . |