Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was the realisation of his disability that decided the man to go for him first . |
| 2 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 3 | If the Sun Chariot emphasised the spreading cloak of Arab domination , then the Cambridgeshire proved there is still a place for the smaller owner when Jeremy Glover sent out Rambo 's Hall , the only horse to have won for him this season , to gain an equally facile success . |
| 4 | He had proved that he had not , after all , thrown away his how-to-train manual , despite the fact that only Rambo 's Hall has won for him this season . |
| 5 | I suppose the best thing for you to do is to book a plane ticket to London for around the beginning of April and forget about him that way . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know what I 'm going to think about if I 'm not going to worry about him all the time . |
| 7 | Cos , he says I 'm I mean I will , she looks after him all the time |
| 8 | They could have looked after him more . |
| 9 | It was perhaps one slight rejection of the conformity that was expected of him that night . |
| 10 | By s.25 : [ a ] person shall be guilty of an offence if , when not at his place of abode , he has with him any article for use in the course of or in connection with any burglary , theft or cheat . |
| 11 | I bumped into him four weeks later and he said , ‘ Oi , you made it all up ’ and I swallowed something sharp and jagged , shrivelled like a salted snail and said , ‘ Yeah I did ’ . |
| 12 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 13 | The first job of the officer is to ‘ determine whether he has before him sufficient evidence to charge that person with the offence for which he was arrested ’ . |
| 14 | It is an imaginative reaching out to grasp the reality of God , to encounter and respond to his will , and to find in him living truth . |
| 15 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 16 | Why did this boy arouse in him that nostalgia , that sensation of something altogether extinct . |
| 17 | By the time she had closed her room door behind her , though , while there was still some part of her that did n't want to be attracted to him some other part of her was arguing , Why should n't she be attracted to him ? |
| 18 | Under the Housing Act 1980 he was empowered to ‘ do all such things as appear to him necessary or expedient ’ to enable tenants ‘ to exercise the right to buy ’ . |
| 19 | So much , too much , was happening to him all at once . |
| 20 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 21 | The difficulties of this task are compounded by a natural unwillingness to admit any independent criteria for judging a particular reading , since Althusser 's aim is to interpret Marx in his own terms , rather than to impose on him any independent ( and ideological ) standards . |
| 22 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 23 | To this end , unbeknown to the millions who have brought about the event , Jesus Christ has been cast in the role of a surrogate Created God , and by ascribing to him all that goodness that they wish to preserve , those who profess the Christian faith , have been doing just what the concept of the Created God requires , and what this book advocates , except that they have deified a single historical individual , Jesus Christ , instead of an abstract conception drawing its being from a myriad of sources . |
| 24 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 25 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 26 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 27 | And there was poor Mr Forbes gaga as a gooseberry over her , never mind she was laughing at him all the time . |
| 28 | It must have , er have n't got all that worse then , here 's Tufnell comes up again , slightly faster than the other one , hits him on the pad or bit of that pad maybe , Robin Smith 's very close in there and once or twice he 's dived , he 's never quite sure whether off the pad or off bat and pad , everybody shouts at him poor chap , anyhow , catch it , a hundred and eighteen for three end of that one from Tufnell so he 's now bowled fifteen overs , two for seventeen that one was yet another maiden . |
| 29 | Larry shouts at him later for his indulgence , and Bono admits he lacked the discipline to sell himself , the ability to attack positively the disinterest . |
| 30 | and he 's he 's got such a a negative way of looking at himself and everybody else looks at him that way now . |