Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He owes allegiance to Geoffrey now , but does as little to aid him and as little to harm Stephen as possible , protecting both his own and his brother 's interests there , while Robert does as much for him here . |
| 2 | Yeah , but you got ta be down here early enough for that to see him . |
| 3 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 4 | For this convinced him of how essential was religious practice to all civilizations . |
| 5 | As for Dennis , well , after that killing him would have been a kindness , would n't it ? |
| 6 | One confident stride after another pushed him out across the ice until he wheeled sharply , shedding a spume of flakes at his feet . |
| 7 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 8 | All of that placed him very safely above London 's poor manual labourers — but it should not persuade either him or us that he had achieved social parity with the genteel and leisured classes . |
| 9 | He had had his suit cleaned and pressed though the cost of this appalled him . |
| 10 | The mention of this allowed him to express once more how ‘ utterly desperate ’ a place England was . |
| 11 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 12 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 13 | Where the problem arises is in the comparatively rare situation in which an adult patient declines to consent to treatment which in the clinical judgment of those attending him is necessary if irreparable damage is not to be done to his health or , in some cases , if his life is to be saved . |
| 14 | Flying across England and Ireland like that to deliver him an angry homily on his duty to his firm ! |
| 15 | Things like this made him feel his age . |
| 16 | I wondered if confrontations like this gave him strength and relief ; anything that would help . |
| 17 | Tales like this inspired him to go and explore for himself ; and apart from them he had another reason . |
| 18 | What is sure is that Field , with his access to the latest English pianos at an early age , at no time played the harpsichord , and this , perhaps , above all helped him to develop the use of the pedal , which he would often sustain through changes of harmony , for the sake of the colouring of the phrase . |
| 19 | No bones gritted or grated , even though his ankles now felt miserably weak , it was just that his muscles would n't firm up enough to keep him straight . |
| 20 | At thirty-eight he was certainly a very handsome man , but there was nothing in that to endear him to her . |
| 21 | In addition he was a skilled photographer and connoisseur of Egyptian antiquities , which in all made him ideally suited to an archaeological career . |
| 22 | There was laughter , but it lacked the heartiness , the sincerity of the laughter he was accustomed to from those surrounding him . |
| 23 | I 'm sure it was Jan egging him on that got him expelled from the Rainbow Crche . |
| 24 | I was n't the only on that saw him then ! |
| 25 | Remorse over this made him fall ill , and he died within a matter of months to be succeeded in his office by his son Henri ( 1767–1840 ) . |
| 26 | There is some fear among lay people that this is so , that the doctor gives up and hands the patient over to those nursing him . |
| 27 | Hearing that Jesus became amazed and said to those following him , I tell you the truth but no one in Israel have I faced to a greater face so that 's quite some statement that Jesus has made |
| 28 | ( He would not be among strangers ; among those preceding him at that limbo for disgraced generals were the unfortunate Bapst , de Bonneval and Chretien . ) |
| 29 | J actually expends energy on caring about not caring in a ( non ) attempt to kid us nothing' at all bothers him into action , no sir . |
| 30 | ‘ Did n't anyone at all see him go out ? ’ asked Mervyn . |