Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] this [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | No one would hear her , but she could n't face having to find him among this unfamiliar crowd . |
| 3 | ‘ He swears that the Brigadier and the Brigade Major use his establishment and supply him with this vital information . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By being supportive like this , it will reassure him that his family love him and are there to help him through this difficult time . |
| 8 | Picasso had never exhibited at the large Salons or taken part in any group manifestations , and after the Indépendants of 1909 , Braque joined him in this particular kind of artistic isolation . |
| 9 | He was normally shown , holding a double axe and thunderbolt , standing on a bull , thus linking him with this important fertility image . |
| 10 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |
| 11 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 12 | What , she wondered , had brought him to this ungainly death ? |
| 13 | Instead of having Matt to myself , when I have n't seen him for months and months , I have to share him with this wretched woman who ca n't get her act together ! |
| 14 | Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’ |
| 15 | Why did they want him on this particular job ? |
| 16 | whom he could trust , and he needed my youth to support him at this difficult time and so , like a fool , I had believed him and flown |
| 17 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 18 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 19 | oh cos Robin Day was really trying to get him with this nuclear thing |
| 20 | We were just going to ask him about this proposed pay rise that 's all . |
| 21 | On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation . |
| 22 | Ranulf muttered indignantly against his strange master who dragged him across this wild country so different from the narrow streets of London and so utterly tedious as well . |
| 23 | She half turned to go , then stopped , unable to understand the strange reluctance she felt at leaving him with this bitter anger lying between them . |
| 24 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |
| 25 | Theo distracted him from this gloomy conclusion by springing a surprise on him . |
| 26 | This poor creature should be back with his family who undoubtedly need him at this dreadful time . ’ |
| 27 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |
| 28 | I decided to follow him to his bedroom to confront him with this unacceptable behaviour . |