Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 2 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 3 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 4 | Yet oddly enough when Massine staged his Donald of the Burthens with the help of a Scottish expert to guide him through the traditional steps and figures it was not a success , possibly because too much reliance was placed . |
| 5 | Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach . |
| 6 | This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition . |
| 7 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 8 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 9 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |
| 10 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 11 | Many believe that Mr Kinnock 's heart may have been cut out and stamped on but that it beats anew in Mr Brown , and for this reason alone the party leader is credited with wanting the 41-year old Scot to succeed him in the event of disaster . |
| 12 | He used a silver-topped cane to assist him to the dining-room . |
| 13 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 14 | Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening . |
| 15 | And 47-year-old Peter , who models himself on rock legend Elvis Presley , reckons he has the perfect record to make him into an all-round star — Bhingi Bajee Boogy . |
| 16 | An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . " |
| 17 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 18 | Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine ! |
| 19 | For long moments she toyed with his anxious , quivering wand , dexterously using her warm wet tongue and soft lips to guide him to the brink of orgasm . |
| 20 | Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race . |
| 21 | Leighton 's error in allowing Didier Deschamps to beat him at the near post and present France with an advantage they did not deserve was crucial to the outcome of the match . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , this emphasis on the fact that Jesus was a real man , and the rejection of what was certainly a widespread tendency to picture him as a purely superhuman ( and rather unreal ) figure , were clearly necessary : here lies one side of what classical Christian teaching has always held . |
| 23 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 24 | He says it means a lot to me , ity 's a great honour to have him in a little town like this . |
| 25 | This hint of a potential for goodness in the hero helps give some human credibility to Helena 's otherwise folkloric determination to re-entrap him via the bed trick . |
| 26 | All ways to hold him for a while . |
| 27 | Liam wondered why there were such long faces to greet him at the shop . |
| 28 | Andrew will be much missed by all the many who had the good fortune to count him as a colleague and a friend . |
| 29 | A Glasgow friend , Tony Sykes , a great fisherman , at least he kept telling everyone he was , persuaded me against my better judgment to join him for a day 's salmon fishing on the River Ayr at Mauchline . |
| 30 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |