Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 2 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 3 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 4 | Jessamy remembered all the times she had seen him look like that in the past , when he had n't wanted her to know what he was thinking or feeling . |
| 5 | I asked him once why I 'd never seen him mentioned in any of the endless stuff about his movement , and he said he thought some of them had to stay anonymous . |
| 6 | David was urged on by Beth 's insistence that he ‘ talk some sense into the boy , or watch him go from bad to worse ’ . |
| 7 | He went to Scarborough this summer , and I heard him mentioned as one of their goalscorers lately . |
| 8 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
| 9 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 10 | She watched him turn to one of the inner doors , his head somehow lowered , and when he reached it he looked back with an aggressive jerk of his head . |
| 11 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
| 12 | But on Adwick we have decided , and I 've told John or he 's been informed , that because we 've got a supervisor there I do n't want him starting at six in the morning . |
| 13 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 14 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 15 | Camille thought his smile made him look like one of Mick 's greyhounds . |
| 16 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 17 | I met him returning from one of the Penn ponds with the largest pike of the year swinging by his side and a look of sheer elation on his face . |
| 18 | Then I saw him looking in one of the restaurant windows , keeping himself kind of flattened up against the wall . ’ |
| 19 | A settled domestic life with two year-old Daniel and the lovely former actress Suzanne Danielle provided the supremely talented Scot with a secure and solid base from which to plan his survival from decline which saw him slump to 51st in the 1988 Order of Merit . |
| 20 | Schofield , who had threatened legal action to force Leeds to allow him to play for Manly in the close season , revealed : ‘ Manly have withdrawn their offer in view of the problems . ’ |
| 21 | What we really want to do is to get him to respond to some of our press releases and to comment from his perspective of what the press is actually looking for . |
| 22 | This left him tied on 205 for the three rounds with Baker-Finch , who shot 72 on the third day . |
| 23 | I 'll ask him to comment on that in a minute . |
| 24 | You ca n't imagine him going into one of the labourers ' cottages can you , Thérèse said , pulling on her nylons . |