Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Urquhart , telling her to meet him in half an hour outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 2 | Would those older cadets actually report him for such an infringement , on Lexandro 's part , of cousinly courtesy ? |
| 3 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 4 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 5 | She had never seen him in such a rage . |
| 6 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 7 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 8 | Rhythm , the primary revelation of Indian music for Glass , preoccupied him to such an extent that one of his pieces at this time , Play , consisted of two lines for soprano saxophones. each instrument using only two notes . |
| 9 | I 've never known him in such a huff . |
| 10 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 11 | She put an arm across her eyes and opened them beneath it , seeing him in such a way that he could never be certain whether she had looked or not , naked and hairy and black as she might have imagined , thick-set and arrogant and very ready — that much at least was certain — to take her without any further preamble . |
| 12 | Such remarks , though a backhanded compliment in their implied assumption of her intelligence , made her hate him with such an intensity that she could actually feel herself start to tremble and sweat . |
| 13 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 14 | Luther Reynolds ridiculed David in front of her , belittling him in such a way as to destroy any respect she might have had for her husband ; although she could not help but like him a little . |
| 15 | They would have cast him in many a role in one of their plays . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 17 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 18 | Yes , to give him the chance to find the right one , the one that would stir him in such a way that he felt he could n't do without her . |
| 19 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 20 | There 's no point leaving him with half a harem , and there 's no way of telling who 's important and who 's not . ’ |