Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 2 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 5 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 6 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 9 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 10 | She began to shower him with desperate gifts . |
| 11 | But then the electors of Leyton decided to reject him amid tearful scenes , strangling his political career . |
| 12 | Proud dad Mick , 33 , of Rochester , Kent , dashed to enrol him in Third Division Gillingham 's supporters club . |
| 13 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Wright , who lent him money that he never repaid , continued to consult him on technical matters after he left Derby ; Burdett in turn seems to have procured purchasers for some of Wright 's pictures , including Washington Shirley , fifth Earl Ferrers [ q.v. ] , and Catherine the Great . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The nettle-rash got somewhat better in time , but it continued to bother him at regular intervals for the next 20 years . |
| 24 | One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit . |
| 25 | Now , more than anything , she wanted to point him towards that hole and push . |
| 26 | Thames Water Utilities wanted to put him on light duties . |
| 27 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 28 | Apart from anything else , she wanted to recompense him in some way , although she doubted he would accept a reward . |