Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 2 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 3 | ‘ Mortmain' , or dead hand , refers to the fact that the church was an undying institution so that any land which it held in fee ( or freehold ) was never vacated by the death of its owner or came into the possession of a minor or an heiress ; thus it would never revert ( or escheat ) to the chief lord for the duration of the vacancy or minority , so depriving him of the valuable rights of wardship and marriage appertaining to feudal tenure . |
| 4 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 5 | And Richie was no longer treating him like a lame duck . |
| 6 | He was hoping , no doubt , to be told that Mr Wilcox was n't in yet , so that he could leave a message for Vic to ring back , thus putting him on the defensive , knowing that his divisional chief knew that he , Vic , had n't been at his desk as early as him , Stuart Baxter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had the writer laid out , face down with his baggy trousers around his knees , on a marble-topped kitchen table , and was anally violating him with a large , unwashed carrot . |
| 9 | He would badger him about anything , often hitting him on the least pretext . |
| 10 | These need to be grasped if we are to understand him — and so to make use of him , rather than simply dismissing him as an embittered elitist pessimist . |
| 11 | Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ? |
| 12 | The next moment he was inside and she was closing the door behind him , then leading him along the narrow hallway towards the living-room . |
| 13 | Dryden led from start to finish opening with a 75 and then roaring him with a 71 to win by six shots from Blyth 's Gary Wilson . |
| 14 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 15 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |