Example sentences of "him [verb] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In post-race interviews Dickinson emphasized the difficulties of getting a horse fit and ready for the Gold Cup , let alone winning it , and he confided that the stress and tension of training the five had caused him to lose a stone in weight since Christmas . |
| 2 | Here the constable told the driver that there was no device available at the station for taking specimens of breath and then simply required him to provide a specimen of blood . |
| 3 | They heard him give a cry of wonder from the other side and followed him . |
| 4 | With surprise he watched him consume a lot of macaroni . |
| 5 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 6 | A feature on Neil Kinnock 's future claims that his ‘ appalled friends ’ have tried to deter him seeking a place on Labour 's national executive , ‘ fearful of the boyo in the backseat ’ . |
| 7 | Then one afternoon at Scotch College , a school-friend asked him to play a game of rugby . |
| 8 | Dryden makes him sound a monument of dullness ; in reality he is brisk , lively and journalistic . |
| 9 | My hope is a more settled and competent defence this season will help him re-gain a lot of confidence . |
| 10 | Leopold had already written to Padre Martini urging him to send a letter of recommendation to the Elector and , since Munich was on Mozart 's route from Paris to Salzburg , he suggested that his son intimate to the Elector , or to a close associate , that he had been offered a post at Salzburg with a salary of 700 or 800 gulden ( the actual salary was only 450 ) in the hope that a more rewarding appointment might be offered . |
| 11 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 12 | It occurred to him that if she belonged to Gary , there was nothing to stop him taking a sort of family ownership too . |
| 13 | Lucy 's colour rose as memory of lying on the bed beside him sent a wave of desire through her , but she pushed the yearning away , making an effort to speak calmly . |
| 14 | For all those things , I despised him , and was too afraid of him to raise a voice in protest . |
| 15 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 16 | It advised him to forgive the man and pray for him to have a change of heart . |
| 17 | The Cabinet seemed to him to have a reputation of worthiness verging on the dull . |
| 18 | Murray seemed to him to have a laziness of spirit and a lack of character ; Richard , on the other hand , gave the impression of a great potential traduced by charm . |
| 19 | Whoever killed him had a bucket of blood to wipe away . ’ |
| 20 | Last year , while Mr Brown was earning $195,000 , Mr Powell was reportedly getting more than $275,000 from LACMA , and National Gallery Chairman Franklin Murphy told The Art Newspaper , ‘ We certainly wo n't ask him to take a cut in salary ’ . |
| 21 | Tell him to bring a crowd of law officers and a local judge to the inn . |
| 22 | Above all , in 1072 he had publicly defeated the archbishop of York , and obliged him to make a profession of obedience to Canterbury . |
| 23 | His experience had led him to become a teacher at training sessions , but that prevented him from putting into practice his own form of calculated waging of war . |