Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 2 | Despite their common backgrounds , shared interests , and childhood ties , Gould 's pre-eminence had swiftly distinguished him beyond social association with his former colleague . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 4 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 5 | The maxims would serve only to guide him towards fuller awareness of the present situation . |
| 6 | Michael impatiently thrust him on one side and brought out the sack . |
| 7 | She did not merely like him , did not merely hold him in high regard ; she was in love with him ! |
| 8 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 9 | The morning 's adventure had apparently left him in hot water with the lady of the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ ALMIGHTY Allah has vindicated us , ’ Nawaz Sharif told the crowds waiting outside Pakistan 's Supreme Court on May 26th : the court had just reinstated him as prime minister . |
| 11 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 12 | ‘ Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But now he claims that as he has found work independently , I can no longer employ him in this capacity . ’ |
| 14 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 15 | I just thought , yeah , I could just get him into big shit now ! |
| 16 | I scarcely see him from one working day to the next . ’ |
| 17 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 18 | Had you ever met him before this weekend ? ’ |
| 19 | Martinus , a just man , protested to Paulus , who promptly threatened him with instant imprisonment for his interference . |
| 20 | This suspension can absorb a bump so quickly that the driver hardly senses it , yet it still keeps him in perfect control of the car . |
| 21 | I always keep him under tight control when I 'm walking and make sure that he never goes near sheep or lambs , and on the open fell he 's usually on his best behaviour . |
| 22 | We can still charge him with reckless behaviour . |
| 23 | They were still watching him with fox-like concentration . |
| 24 | Wealthy friends who still held him in high regard as a man , raised money and set the family up in a 500 acre property which they arranged in the names of Mrs. Piper and the children . |
| 25 | Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before . |
| 26 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 27 | The authority had also accused him of encouraging homosexuality in his religious education lessons . |
| 28 | Kite had to win in New Orleans to be invited but could only manage joint 12th with Severiano Ballesteros , whose last round of 69 has also put him in good heart . |
| 29 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 30 | How could he possibly think such a thing about her — that she would not only take drugs herself , but that she 'd willingly put him in horrific danger by acting as a kind of double agent ? |