Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 2 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 3 | If our dear departed were not going to speak out against the Berlin talks as seemed altogether likely suppose — I must say suppose — that some deranged mind decided to eliminate him under the guise of a Muscovite attempt on the dear Praident ? |
| 4 | This global stance and anthropological imagination continue to guide him in his consideration of the relation between religion and culture , and his fascination with ‘ more primitive and self-contained peoples , where the culture and the religion are co-terminous ’ . |
| 5 | At the end of August 1914 he was promoted to Brigadier on the field ; so suddenly that an elderly spinster had to furnish him with stars unsewn from her father 's uniform . |
| 6 | I would gladly say , ‘ Heil Hitler ! ’ and at once part company with him , realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to tlatter him with an imitation which he has always disdained . |
| 7 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 8 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 9 | The Labour MP Dr Jack Cunningham was touring the complex during the nuclear spillage , but the nuclear company failed to notify him of the incident . |
| 10 | He broke off , apparently only to finish his drink , but then as he sat hunched in his chair contemplating his empty glass some overpowering depression seemed to crush him into silence . |
| 11 | Another potential voter starts to tell him about the car that went through his garden wall . |
| 12 | She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions . |