Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him .
2 But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title .
3 George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest :
4 One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . "
5 But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness .
6 The question seemed to amuse him in some way .
7 Proud dad Mick , 33 , of Rochester , Kent , dashed to enrol him in Third Division Gillingham 's supporters club .
8 The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge .
9 Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said .
10 Henry 's wholehearted displays in such a variety of roles , allied to his self-effacing modesty , combined to endear him to all Palace fans of the mid-1980s .
11 BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union .
12 Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation .
13 Sooner or later Rebecca would learn that her trust in him was unfounded , that she had to share him with any woman who took his fancy .
14 One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering .
15 So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car .
16 One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit .
17 Now , more than anything , she wanted to point him towards that hole and push .
18 Apart from anything else , she wanted to recompense him in some way , although she doubted he would accept a reward .
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