Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That small part of the Doctor 's character that allowed for scepticism reminded him of all the times such naivety had landed him in trouble before . |
| 2 | He released a hundred quintols of amyl to remind him of that . |
| 3 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 4 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 5 | One of Reith 's first actions as Minister of Works was to appoint a panel of consultants to advise him on post-war planning . |
| 6 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 7 | A series of publications subjecting him to merciless ridicule appeared in 1691 — note the date . |
| 8 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |
| 9 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |
| 10 | His quiet friendliness , calm courage and sense of humour endeared him to all , Burmans and British alike . |
| 11 | This sense of perspective led him to lucid conclusions about the inescapable reality of decolonization and the long-term interests of France , which were better served by accepting decolonization than by resisting it . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd sure like t'have pulled him in that night . |
| 13 | In this founding era , de Gaulle gradually gathered soldiers and civilians to his standard , transformed his improvised organization into an alternative state , with its own bureaucracy and armed forces , headed off efforts to replace him as Free France 's leader , and emerged as the symbolic head of all French resisters , inside as well as outside France . |
| 14 | Saunders is fed up with speculation linking him with other clubs , Newcastle being the latest to show an interest , following Spurs and Aston Villa . |
| 15 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 16 | As it happens , he would n't be arriving at the best possible moment : William Charles , 14 years his brother 's senior , was finding his own fame and fortune rather on the wane just at that time — he did n't need those supercilious letters from William Jowett in Jamaica to remind him of that . |
| 17 | And , perhaps because his time in France immersed him in French culture , which takes the social sciences more seriously than Britain 's , he has plenty of respect for medical sociology . |
| 18 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 19 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 20 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 21 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 22 | His interest in transferring aquatinted designs to pottery led him in 1771 to approach Josiah Wedgwood [ q.v. ] , who after considerable interest finally lost patience with the headstrong Burdett , who had hopes of years of lucrative work from his process . |
| 23 | Athelstan looked at her and prayed to God to forgive him for all he felt was disgust . |
| 24 | The five children of the household — all under twelve — sat staring at him and from time to time discussed him with one another in rapid French , which in spite of his recent visit to the country as a ski soldier , totally escaped his capacity to understand . |
| 25 | It was amusing for Charles to see him in this state , his usual poise unbalanced by childlike curiosity . |
| 26 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |
| 27 | At Lincoln Crown Court today Judge Richard Hutchinson who 'd adjourned the case for reports sentenced him to two consecutive eighteen month prison terms . |
| 28 | That said his fitness has to be 100% for Wilko to play him at all , and he clearly is liable to get himself sent off . |
| 29 | And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone . |