Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Bank may — ( a ) by notice in writing served on an authorised institution require it to produce , within such time and at such place as may be specified in the notice , such document or documents of such description as may be so specified ; ( b ) authorise an officer , servant or agent of the Bank , on producing evidence of his authority , to require any such institution to provide him forthwith with such information , or to produce to him forthwith such documents , as he may specify , being such information or documents as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under this Act . |
| 2 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 3 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 4 | He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game . |
| 5 | Say me a word , one enlightening word , to let him out of this cage . |
| 6 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 7 | Enough to keep him ketone-free with single-figure blood glucose levels most of the time , at as near ideal body weight as possible and avoiding hypoglycaemia . |
| 8 | Reilly is confident that rest will cure Jonathan Davies 's persistent groin problem but must be concerned about Lucas 's broken wrist which threatens to keep him out of next month 's Cup final . |
| 9 | This , diverted , now turned into a recital about every distant relative Neil Cochrane possessed , all of whom , apparently , had only one wish — to see him back in polite society again . |
| 10 | The approach to Jesus in much of the theology and teaching with which Kierkegaard was familiar tended very much to see him too in that kind of light — as the founder of a religion , as the discoverer and imparter of divine truths , as the exemplar of particular values , which were only accidentally bound up with him , but in principle could be detached from him . |
| 11 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 12 | Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP . |
| 13 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 14 | But once the swelling subsides we will be pulling out all the stops to get him back into full training , and playing again in six weeks . ’ |
| 15 | It did n't take much to get him back into proper work ; the pleasant surprise was that the three weeks holiday had done him a lot of good . |
| 16 | The er other thing about our crew was that er one time there , I guess after was the only one that got back and they , they had to get him back on flying service . |
| 17 | I was never able to take him up on this kindness , alas , since he and half the drugs squad were themselves arrested a few days later . |
| 18 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |