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Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] him " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She sent Gwenellen to sit with him , because she wanted to tell me about a telephone call from General Francis .
2	It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman .
3	Love from Uncle Willie and that goes for him too . ’
4	All right , I thought ; yes , it 's womanish to go to him , but they 're poor times , and maybe an astrologer 's a rug to put over you when you 're wintering .
5	That points at him amazed .
6	Under these circumstances , I thought it possible to work with him " .
7	The Consul-General 's agents , fresh from England , might not have been prepared to agree with him .
8	Even if Madeleine were able to convince Aubrey that she loved him and was willing to wait for him , had he the moral right to ask her to do so ?
9	He believed that a place which respected horseflesh would not be wholly comfortless and as he had horses this applied to him .
10	Ah , this looks like him ! ’
11	John wrote emphatically : ‘ I have made no provision for my son Lawrence other than the bequest of £100 because he had his own business in opposition to mine ; I was willing to work with him and help him but he would not and preferred competition . ’
12	Shildon telephoned next , from a callbox , to say he had heard from Eliot that Rain was willing to work with him .
13	‘ Yes , yes , ’ she said smiling , half laughing at him .
14	Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine .
15	This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit .
16	This seemed to him , and to me , to have become a great issue of conscience .
17	Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life .
18	The faithful pushed past him , round him , and over him as if he were invisible , a stage property in their way .
19	However , if your child does something , and as a result of his action something unpleasant happens to him , he is less likely to do it in the future ( the undesired behaviour may be reduced or eliminated ) .
20	Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak .
21	‘ It was really funny to listen to him .
22	At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly .
23	Oh God , she thought , what will this do to him , to both of us ?
24	She was also dimly aware that they had passed the point of no return — now she had allowed him inside her it seemed wrong to yell at him to stop or begin fighting him .
25	At first , as always , he felt lonely and homesick ; he suffered from the fate of many famous men : according to one observer , most people were afraid to talk to him and he ate dinner alone at the Nassau Club .
26	He termintade that counselling , butr we are willing to talk to him through his partish priest or bishop .
27	It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way .
28	Mowat is n't half going for him .
29	‘ I can see it upsets you , ’ he said softly , and she was afraid to look at him , afraid to see again what she imagined she 'd seen in his eyes .
30	She was afraid to look at him .