Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 2 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 3 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 4 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |
| 5 | For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory . |
| 6 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 7 | I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard . |
| 8 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 9 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 10 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 11 | I notice I refer to him in the past tense . |
| 12 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 13 | His admirers think of him as a national treasure , rather like the works of art of which he is Congress 's most passionate defender . |
| 14 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 15 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 16 | Pound 's disparagement of Milton , for instance , was , I am convinced , most salutary twenty and thirty years ago ; I still agree with him against the academic admirers of Milton ; though to me it seems that the situation has changed . |
| 17 | They cluster around him in a dense shoal and follow him as he moves about . |
| 18 | IF YOU 'VE GOT ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS OR WITH ANY MAJOR WINDOWS APPLICATION , WRITE TO HIM AT THE USUAL ADDRESS . |
| 19 | IF YOU 'VE GOT ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS OR WITH ANY MAJOR WINDOWS APPLICATION , WRITE TO HIM AT THE USUAL ADDRESS . |
| 20 | Ratso gets Buck an introduction to a man ( John McGiver ) who is supposed to put him in touch with some rich ladies , but he begs Buck to get down on his knees and pray with him under a kitschy lit-up Jesus on the bathroom door of his hotel room . |