Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Charity 's friends were hardly likely to accept him on the strength of a short acquaintance with the nursery slopes at Wengen . |
| 2 | ‘ It is a pretty distinctive looking donkey and the person who has him is hardly likely to parade him around the countryside . |
| 3 | Since Schorne was described in an episcopal record in 1273 as a subdeacon and became an incumbent with cure of souls at that time , it is probably wrong to identify him with the namesake collated by Archbishop John Peckham [ q.v. ] to the rectory of Monks Risborough ( Buckinghamshire ) on 24 September 1289 , a man who had been ordained subdeacon on the title of that benefice just twelve days earlier in Kent . |
| 4 | " My contribution , " he said , perhaps anxiously , to his daughter , who found it almost impossible to kiss him across the barrier made by these objects and her own girth . |
| 5 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 6 | Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Jackson had managed to convey the essence of this tall , eccentric doctor in his report , enough to make Montgomery very curious to meet him in the flesh . |
| 8 | Too late to get him in the team , though . ’ |
| 9 | No , too fanciful to consider him in the role of murderer . |
| 10 | She knew that she was always quietly satisfied to have him in the cottage , to hear his footfalls on the floor above , to share with him the meal she had cooked for herself at the end of the day . |