Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know what I 'm going to think about if I 'm not going to worry about him all the time . |
| 5 | Cos , he says I 'm I mean I will , she looks after him all the time |
| 6 | They could have looked after him more . |
| 7 | It was perhaps one slight rejection of the conformity that was expected of him that night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 10 | Why did this boy arouse in him that nostalgia , that sensation of something altogether extinct . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | So much , too much , was happening to him all at once . |
| 13 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 18 | And there was poor Mr Forbes gaga as a gooseberry over her , never mind she was laughing at him all the time . |
| 19 | and he 's he 's got such a a negative way of looking at himself and everybody else looks at him that way now . |
| 20 | Have you looked at him this morning ? |
| 21 | I do n't know how Wheeler knows him except that Charles has a cottage on the Cumbermound estate so perhaps he 's come across him that way . |
| 22 | Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week . |
| 23 | This is analogous to the claim Gandhi makes in an address he gave to Christian missionaries , namely , that ‘ many men who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ or have even rejected the official interpretation of Christianity would probably , if Jesus came into our midst today … be owned by him more than many of us … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The captain , Stuart Barnes , has done everything asked of him this year . |
| 25 | There is therefore some doubt as to whether broad clauses of the type that state that the firm is not obliged to disclose to the customer or take into account when acting for him any information known to the firm but unknown to the individual acting for the customer would protect the firm against allegations of non-disclosure , particularly in the case of an inexperienced customer . |
| 26 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 27 | He smiled and began to climb the slope again , slowly , looking about him all the while , his eyes taking in the ruins , the distant , cloud-wreathed mountains , the two horses grazing just below them . |
| 28 | They came for him this afternoon , Geoffrey says . |
| 29 | Peter has now been transferred to the Aylestone Day Centre in Hereford , where he has volunteer helpers looking after him all the time . |
| 30 | Premiere , the favourite , behaved like a horse that had had a fuss made of him all his life ; almost , I thought fancifully , as arrogantly as Sheridan . |