Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning .
2 Although a managing director will usually be an employee the courts sensibly view him in a different light from that of a manual worker .
3 I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death .
4 And Burrows senselessly followed him after a late challenge on Khlestov .
5 If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself
6 She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend .
7 It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks .
8 ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’
9 To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ .
10 Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’
11 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 .
12 Her betrothed leapt back to his feet , his hand going to the knife at his belt , but Cranston just dismissed him with a contemptuous flicker of his eyes .
13 I think you just caught him at a bad moment .
14 Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art .
15 I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion .
16 His forcefulness , intelligence and personality soon established him as a national leader .
17 He can console himself with a winter passage booked to Australia , and the knowledge that his talent and determined character have finally set him on a rightful path to the pinnacle of the game .
18 And Richie was no longer treating him like a lame duck .
19 Normally this was Beth 's favourite time … when her son was lying sleepy in his bed and she would read him a story about creatures and little people ; gentle stories that soon sent him into a peaceful slumber .
20 To her relief , although it was very faint , she found a pulse , and quickly she loosened his tie , unbuttoned his shirt and somehow manoeuvred him into a better position , all the while talking to him , reassuring him , telling him he was safe .
21 She is pursued by Mr Lillyvick , whom she marries , but soon deserts him for a retired naval captain .
22 She could quite easily imagine him in a black cloak or a doge 's zoia .
23 The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before .
24 Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light .
25 It was important that they should all be seen to be doing this in a town as a matter of agreed policy , to present a common front to prospective buyers who could not therefore accuse a particular tradesman of unfairly , unjustly discrediting him as a personal vendetta .
26 This not only kept the suit in good condition and therefore prolonged its life but also provided him with a smart outfit always ready at short notice , as now .
27 An elderly office boy wordlessly showed him into a narrow , bumf-heaped office that contained , with difficulty , seven people .
28 The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground .
29 ‘ He will remain captain , and while other people will inevitably paint him as a so-called bad boy , that does n't wash with me .
30 ‘ The Soviets have now transferred him to a Labour Camp . ’
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