Example sentences of "[prep] him [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school . |
| 2 | All of his suspicions about women since Angela Deverill 's treatment of him came back with a rush , and he could not tell whether McAllister was registering shame or guilt . |
| 3 | SCHOOLBOY Neil Aspden has put the horrors of a vicious assault behind him to look forward to a Christmas of a lifetime . |
| 4 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 5 | They left with him tied up like a criminal . |
| 6 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 7 | It was very unusual for him to go anywhere on a Thursday , whether Porteneil or any further afield . |
| 8 | Does not he recognise that it is a broadly based representative body in which it was open to the Conservative party to participate and that for him to call now for a debate , once its work is completed , is extraordinary ? |
| 9 | Where the dealer acted as counterparty to the contract he may be willing to unwind the contract with a customer but there is no incentive for him to do so at a competitive price . |
| 10 | At the most extreme , Pascale ( 1984 : 65 ) suggests that rationality as such is an ethnocentric cul-de-sac , and the standard business-journal exercise of learning-from-the-Japanese for him boils down to a flight from rationality and emulating the inspired but erratic hit-or-miss business behaviour of Soichiro Honda . |
| 11 | These clauses do not limit the exercise of the expert 's judgment to valuation or technical questions , but call on him to act more like a judge or arbitrator . |