Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 2 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 3 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 4 | Attempts to find him by a local Hezbollah cell had failed . |
| 5 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 6 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 7 | Both the porter and the guards welcomed him like a long-lost brother . |
| 8 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 9 | Grey eyes questioned him with the full seriousness of her young being . |
| 10 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 11 | He must have a suitcase of handkerchiefs , Trent thought as he met the Latino 's cold eyes studying him over the crisp white linen barricade . |
| 12 | Injuries permitting , he should finish this season approaching 600 career games — with a tally of goals putting him among the 300-plus elite . |
| 13 | Shamlou 's dark eyes held him in a contemptuous gaze . |
| 14 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 15 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |
| 16 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 17 | Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . |
| 18 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 19 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 20 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 21 | His own studies led him towards a much-modified Congregationalism , with a threefold ministry of evangelists , pastors , and teachers . |
| 22 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 23 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , after walking in almost total darkness with no lights to guide him save the fast-darkening sky , Tom reached the village hall . |
| 25 | Efforts to turn him into the new Olivier met a similar fate . |
| 26 | This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition . |
| 27 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 28 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 29 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
| 30 | Mrs Summerchild was not available last night for comment , but neighbours described him as a reserved man who was devoted to his family , and who had a passion for music . |