Example sentences of "[vb infin] him [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His description was circulated to all police forces throughout Britain , and a number of anxious relatives visited the mortuary to see if they could recognise him as a missing husband , brother or son , but no one did . |
| 2 | It was quite common for an affluent client to insist : " I 'm only interested in BES schemes , although a skilful dealer would tempt him into a short-term punt in a stock outside the BES . |
| 3 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 4 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 5 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 6 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 7 | At Gorbachev 's side stood Marshall Dmitri Yazov , the defence minister who would later betray him in the attempted coup . |
| 8 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 9 | And hearing him Minch was pleased , for she saw that he was learning to understand others and would be ready for the harder lessons she would give him in the coming year . |
| 10 | Well here 's one man who is very definitely erm upside down about the whole thing , if I can just er tip him over a little bit there , could you , no I 'll try that one again will I |
| 11 | They will present him with an upbeat report claiming significant improvements in performance , with all lines beating Passengers ' Charter standards for timekeeping and reliability . |
| 12 | Fifteen years later a man of 76 , thinking he would like to try satellite television , collected the requisite number of newspaper coupons which would entitle him to a 30-day trial of a satellite dish . |
| 13 | Should any fellow be passing by , he must refuse their invitation or else they will dance him to a watery grave . |
| 14 | ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’ |
| 15 | Rory could see him through the open door as he crossed from the bungalow , through the yard of machinery and tractors , and into the business block . |
| 16 | I can see him through the open bar . |
| 17 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 18 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 19 | I did see him as a six year old child . |
| 20 | ‘ Or do you see him as an inconvenient remnant of outmoded superstition — a bit like a gallstone — of which we must all be purged before religion can take on its true form , that is , without him . ’ |
| 21 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 22 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 23 | I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion . |
| 24 | I said I did n't go out with married men and did n't see him in a romantic way . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 26 | One ca n't see him in an ambassadorial role at all can one ? |
| 27 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 28 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 29 | So that perhaps will interest him for a little while . |
| 30 | I assume that will provide him with a suitable brief . |