Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 2 | Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil . |
| 3 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 4 | Other Lancashire businessmen watching his progress had come to respect him as a red-hot entrepreneur and ruthless opponent in business dealings , for whom profit was the consideration that overrode every other . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 6 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 7 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 8 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 9 | By April of 1824 he had failed to abate the nuisance , and it was decided to present him with a formal notice to desist . |
| 10 | However much the family sat and planned and prepared to scold him after a frightening bender , he would soon have them all melted with his gypsy stories . |
| 11 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 12 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 13 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 14 | Okay , then you would all agree , you 've got to put him through the old P C course . |
| 15 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 16 | His actions had caused him to be one of the most reviled prisoners among the white community , and the government had hitherto refused to recognize him as a political prisoner . |
| 17 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 18 | Alfred McTear , 48 , has contracted pneumonia and was unable to start giving evidence yesterday to the commission appointed to hear him before the full legal hearing , which may be two years away . |
| 19 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 20 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 21 | Claudia lost her breath ; this was intolerable — not only had she been forced to accompany him on a wild chase after Garry Turner , but she was being subjected to what amounted to sexual harassment . |
| 22 | ‘ I have always tried to take him as a melancholy warning ’ ( wrote Tolkien in 1964 ) , so the danger was seen . |
| 23 | His lengthy sabbatical and lack of match-fitness have combined to push him into a deeper , more thoughtful role . |
| 24 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 25 | The christian name of ‘ Shallowe of Hollendon ’ , owner of a small property in Singleborough , Bucks. , is illegible , and since this is the sole reference to him one is almost tempted to dismiss him as a fictional character ! |
| 26 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 27 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |