Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 2 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 3 | We did what we could but , ideally , I 'd like to see him moved to a proper unit , specialising in orthopaedics . |
| 4 | It was 03.17 and I was just in time to see him climb into a waiting car and drive off . |
| 5 | The defender is often faced with a claim of exorbitant amount , an agent for the pursuer who is unprepared or unable to quantify the same properly , and a pursuer who believes that his accident will be sufficient to enable him to retire to a comfortable abode in the sun . |
| 6 | ‘ There is no rift between Liam Brady and myself , ’ said Grant , the youngest member of Celtic 's seven-man board , who last season survived an attempt by fellow directors to have him removed at a special general meeting . |
| 7 | Engine trouble on the first leg did n't manage to stop him coming in a creditable second . |
| 8 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 9 | She tried to picture him looking like a French version of Cobalt , for whom she felt no physical attraction at all , and then she tried to calculate whether , in that guise , he was not a more likely murderer . |