Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 2 | A definition of that sort might allow the person addressed to take into account the fact that the person making the utterance was seeking to make a serious point , or engage him in reasoned discussion , or was acting unintentionally . |
| 3 | He wondered what Berowne was expecting him to do ; find a potential blackmailer or investigate him for double murder ? |
| 4 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 5 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 6 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 7 | D. B. Sweeney plays Doug Dorsey , a working class lad whose bright future in the National Hockey League is ended by a playing accident that leaves him with permanent eye damage . |
| 8 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 9 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 10 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 11 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
| 12 | A few says later the Shah sought assurances from the US Embassy that he was still welcome in the United States cabled Rabat to say , " we assured the Shah publicly as well as in private messages that he would be welcome in the US should he choose to go there , and that there should be bo doubt whatsoever as to our willingness to receive ( him ) and provide him with appropriate protection " . |
| 13 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 14 | All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error , for re-setting the direction of man 's life and training him in good living . |
| 15 | A letter from Mary Evans , possibly written at George Coleridge 's suggestion , begged him to give up his plans for emigration , and addressed him with painful tenderness as ‘ her best-beloved Brother ’ . |
| 16 | To improve his nutritional state and get him into clinical remission before surgery he was given Elemental 028 but immediately became systemically unwell and developed diarrhoea and vomiting . |
| 17 | I put down my lunch and followed him in frantic pursuit . |
| 18 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 19 | His ability to face anything was severely tested by Mr Multhrop , who clutched him firmly by his lapels as he entered the door , as if holding him under close arrest , an impression strengthened by the sight of a uniformed policeman standing behind him . |
| 20 | Jessamy stood in the doorway and watched him in angry astonishment . |
| 21 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
| 22 | ‘ Bind his hands and feet , and cast him into outer darkness . ’ ’ |
| 23 | Experts say the house windows ‘ cushioned ’ the impact and saved him from instant death . |
| 24 | It denied Mr Yeltsin the right to hold a referendum and accused him of stirring confrontation . |
| 25 | Part of the cuff was visible and reminded him of Middy sleeping under the quilt . |
| 26 | A rank , fetid odour clogged his nostrils and reminded him of bad meat . |
| 27 | OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis . |
| 28 | It 's a crazy thing where one child pretends to be a carrot and the others top and tail him and put him in boiling water . |
| 29 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 30 | Grant had time only to register the knowledge that he had lost the unequal contest , and with it his life , before the final hiraken knuckle-blow landed , breaking his nose and cheekbones , and smashing him into bloody oblivion . |