Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder that Abraham can not bring himself to name Isaac , or even refer to him as his son . |
| 2 | A person in possession of a moveable chattel ( e.g. a painting ) who loses it , or has it stolen from him or otherwise taken from him against his will can demand it back within five years from any person who then has possession of it [ Art . |
| 3 | It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist , and merely adopted from him by the emperor . |
| 4 | Visited by Tom Pinch on market day and fondly imagined by him to be ‘ a very desperate sort of place ; an exceedingly wild and dissipated city ’ , MC 5 . |
| 5 | His interests and habits had been too strictly and personally framed for him to be anything less than completely reliant on them . |
| 6 | Not only have the people never voted for the Prime Minister at the ballot box : they have consistently and persistently voted against him at the ballot box . |
| 7 | He idolized James Dean , and also worked with him in Rebel Without a Cause . |
| 8 | Now Sebastian is dead , long dead , and Alix is married to Brian Bowen , son of a saw polisher , grandson of a furnaceman , and often sits with him on an old settee in her stockinged feet . |
| 9 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 10 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
| 11 | The Board of Education has now given effect to the intimation conveyed by Mr. Acland and vaguely announced by him at the Annual meeting . |
| 12 | Instead , he allowed the old man to usher him along and occasionally jab at him with his stick . |
| 13 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 14 | But , in this case , we must suppose that he was both immoral and stupid : immoral in producing evidence which he knew to be forged , and stupid in not going further and producing the letters with their forged additions , for he would have known that a similar forgery supporting the monastic community at Canterbury had recently been submitted at Rome , and that it had been accepted and solemnly quoted to him by the pope as genuine . |
| 15 | He mocks Polonius , but still thinks of him as a ‘ tedious old fool ’ , showing that his feelings have not been resolved . |