Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I was doing this for him in a loving sort of wifely way and he said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I want to get rid of you ’ and I said , ‘ Thank you very much ’ and he said , ‘ Well , finish the trousers and post them on . ’ |
| 2 | For — while Sir Felix had nothing much wrong with him except a wild look in his eye sometimes and a tendency to go off in fits of what Gemma had called " unstable " laughter — she had heard certain tales of moral laxity about his brothers and uncles and even one or two of his sisters , which had done nothing for her peace of mind . |
| 3 | And was it defensible to live with a man because I was physically in love with him and also interested in him as an individual , if I was so suspicious of him ? |
| 4 | Mr. Mendez had bought maybe 25 or 30 from him during the past year . |
| 5 | Theda decided , so relieved that she barely took in the poor quality of his attire , thinking only that the delay must have been made more acceptable to him by a lengthy sojourn in the tap-room . |
| 6 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 7 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 8 | One was always conscious of him as a great Christian ; only later did you become conscious of his denominational affiliation . |
| 9 | Since he is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes , the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly sudden from him in an impenetrable secret … |
| 10 | The key elements in responding well to a brief from a prospective client is to read it thoroughly , think it through , consider what he actually wants , make a proposal which is sound and creative within his expected budget , present these to him in a clear , unconfused way which you have rehearsed , and finally to give him your proposals in a well written form . |
| 11 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 12 | This is selfish of him in the true sense . |
| 13 | ‘ Why the fuck did you get involved with him in the first place ? ’ |
| 14 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |
| 15 | She had seen more of him over the past few days than she usually did , however , so perhaps there was something … |
| 16 | His sportsmanship and style of play is refreshing , and I hope to see a lot more of him in the near future . |
| 17 | Afterwards , she had contrived a quarter of an hour alone with him in a private office . |
| 18 | His eyelashes concealed his eyes in that secret , almost coy way he had and she was suddenly dreadfully frightened and angry with him at the same time . |
| 19 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 20 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St. |
| 21 | Claudine had probably dropped that on him at the last minute . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman must use the time available to him in the normal way to debate that matter . |
| 23 | He reached out and took hold of her hand that was nearest to him in the blue-green water . |
| 24 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 25 | All she wanted , as she sat motionless beside him in the luxurious interior of the Aston Martin , was to reach out and touch the muscular , sun-bronzed knee so close to her own slender legs . |
| 26 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 27 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 28 | A practitioner with any pretension to legal learning should certainly know the lines of argument that may be open to him on a disputed point of interpretation . |
| 29 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 30 | It was through one of several friends who had remained loyal to him through the seven years of his ‘ jeopardy ’ , in two asylums , that his release was obtained : apparently Sherratt walked in and removed him from custody . |