Example sentences of "him [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory was late for their appointment , and when he arrived , Holdfast told him dourly to close the door and join him at the biggest table . |
| 2 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 3 | Told him not to do the garden until I 've finished . |
| 4 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
| 5 | But I am terrified of taking him home to meet the family and particularly my sister , in case he goes the way of all the others . |
| 6 | Although I would n't t in interfere with show him how to do the job and er I would make sure he understood the job . |
| 7 | Once clear of the cloud , she had handed over the controls to him and taught him how to use the power and propeller pitch levers , how to bank the plane sharply , how to descend and climb with power and nose attitude . |
| 8 | I told him how to hold the ball and where to aim it . |
| 9 | The Greek goddess of vegetation and fruitfulness , Demeter gave the first seeds of wheat to mankind and taught him how to cultivate the soil and make bread from the grain . |
| 10 | In any event an engineer must know his science and particularly the limitations on that knowledge but in general his scientific literacy does not help him either to design a product or to write a computer program to control the product 's function . |
| 11 | The Christian 's concern for the reform of the criminal should never make him either deny the offence or fail to protect society against the offender . |
| 12 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |