Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would n't be wise to communicate with him in the usual way while he 's there . ’ |
| 2 | Early in February 1726 Montrose instructed his commissioner in Scotland to organise his friends to support the plan of a reduction in emoluments for the collector , believing that this would discourage the new candidates and ensure Kirkton 's re-election , for the duke was determined ‘ to stand by him upon the above terms , I mean of a smaller sellary for the future ’ . |
| 3 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 4 | God raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world . |
| 5 | I went to listen to him at the methodist church at er Newark about Oh quite a few years when |
| 6 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 7 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 8 | The latter readily agreed , inviting Corbett to walk with him in the silent , shadowy cloisters , taking advantage of the first soft breezes of early summer . |
| 9 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 10 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 11 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 12 | It is a wonderful experience to sit with him in the quiet peacefulness of his home , the table cleared ( in addition to having had the house duly cleaned by his ‘ daily ’ ) to make room for the Sabbath candles , its bread and wine . |
| 13 | If Amaranth was not going to be accepted as the candidate , and if she refused to co-operate with him over the new motorway , and if she rejected his amorous advances , what was the point of pursuing her ? |
| 14 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 15 | Duke Michael could have friends to stay with him in the new castle , but he could go into the old castle when he wanted to be alone . |