Example sentences of "be [verb] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 5 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 6 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 7 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 8 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
| 9 | You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act . |
| 10 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 11 | Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director . |
| 12 | So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time . |
| 13 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
| 14 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 15 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 16 | An apprentice fitter for the Harbour Commissioners , Mark has burst through showing tremendous talent this season and already there are some who are nominating him as a future British 125cc champion . |
| 17 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 18 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 19 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 20 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 21 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 22 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 23 | Although the COB Rules provide that no customer agreement is required for an indirect customer as such , the purpose of these provisions is to treat him as a direct customer in the particular circumstances and so that exclusion is irrelevant . |
| 24 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 25 | Peter Verkhovensky is telling him about a religious conversation among some army officers . |
| 26 | Rees thereupon complained to the European Commission of Human Rights that , by refusing to alter the recorded sex on his birth certificate , the United Kingdom , through its law , is depriving him of the legal status corresponding to his actual condition , to which he is rightfully entitled by Article 8 . |
| 27 | Coughlin says North 's only constructive contribution to Waite 's Lebanon mission had been to introduce him to an undercover agent working in Lebanon for British and American intelligence . |
| 28 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 29 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 30 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |