Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This footslogging — and often freezing — circuit of Ireland , during which he relied entirely on motorists ' charity , provided him with much diverting material . |
| 2 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 3 | And he remembered with satisfaction , because it proved that he was not at fault , that Miriam and Louise had both approached him with some wild tale about Miss Hughes leading their brothers into debauchery and sensuality . |
| 4 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |
| 5 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 6 | No one would hear her , but she could n't face having to find him among this unfamiliar crowd . |
| 7 | ‘ He swears that the Brigadier and the Brigade Major use his establishment and supply him with this vital information . |
| 8 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 9 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 10 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 11 | Her voice and the rattle of pots faded away into the house , and he heard , close to , Annie 's uncontrolled chortle as she approached him with some wicked intent . |
| 12 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 13 | They guaranteed to indemnify him against any financial loss . |
| 14 | An eruption of hissing spluttery steam , carrying wood and metal splinters and crusty bubbles of burnt floor , violently emits from his thought-crater and covers him in gritty black rubbish , the cruel knowledge flashes through to his spine spring which , uncoiling viciously , bashes his head on the back of the seat . |
| 15 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 16 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |
| 17 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 18 | I am not underestimating him because that would be a serious mistake , but the greater our fear the more difficult it is to view him with that clinical detachment so vital for survival . |
| 19 | If it is then asked what drove him to this desperate end , Zande will refer you to the particular tensions and stresses of his life . |
| 20 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 21 | From 1899 to 1902 he encouraged young Labour church workers to visit him for informal religious training . |
| 22 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 23 | I buried him in that beautiful valley of winding waters . |
| 24 | Sarah affected him with such unexpected desire he could n't understand himself . |
| 25 | You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so . |
| 26 | ‘ What are your plans for the rest of the afternoon ? ’ she asked in her best trying-to-be-friendly voice , thinking that if she could pin-point him to some specific part of the house then she could at least do her best to avoid it . |
| 27 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 28 | I suddenly wondered , why did they send him on that Adventuring course ? |
| 29 | Mazowiecki finally won backing from the Sejm to remove Marek Kucharski from the Communications portfolio , replacing him with fellow Democratic Party ( SD ) member Jan Wiktor Slezak . |
| 30 | Milton 's adoption of the high style here distances him from popular dissenting expression , instead giving him a voice ( if not a message ) more likely to be equated with , and find favour among , a sophisticated court culture . |