Example sentences of "[prep] him [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After him came Murtach , who seemed to be leading the patrol ; then Ratagan , Riven and Isay , and the other seven Hearthwares with the mules . |
| 2 | Bicker led , and after him came Ratagan and Riven , Isay and Luib , then Tagan and Rimir and finally Darmid and Corrary leading the pack mules . |
| 3 | [ FS and Start have a disagreement on GBP 65000 after him signing Leeds ] . ’ |
| 4 | Other members of MI5 that looked after him included Colonel George Hartland , Michael Wilmont , Peter Haylor , Captain Charles MacNott , and a clerk , Rose Prince . |
| 5 | Stars who have won Oscars opposite him include Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry , Wrong Number ( 1948 ) , Shirley Booth in Come Back , Little Sheba ( 1952 ) , Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ) , Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo ( 1955 ) and David Niven and Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables ( 1958 ) , which Lancaster also produced . |
| 6 | The sight of him made Tallis freeze . |
| 7 | Lydia was contrite , not because of her treatment of Finn but because her rejection of him made Betty 's kindly presence with her seem not only pointless but rather foolish . |
| 8 | I mentioned to Rhodes after the game that the image of him spearing kamikaze-style into the stumps would adorn front pages around the world the following day , but for him there had been no theatrical ambition inherent in his actions , it was sheer practicality . |
| 9 | Philip thought of him meeting Lee up in the wood . |
| 10 | We see old film footage of him meeting Juliette Greco and Sartre . |
| 11 | We were well aware of him stifling cries of pain , but there was nothing for it but to proceed . |
| 12 | A SUSSEX businessman is threatening to sue National Westminster Bank over a reference it provided about a company that collapsed within four weeks of him supplying games worth more than £7,000 . |
| 13 | Although Botham 's sponsored Mercedes was the victim of a nocturnal break-in on Newcastle quayside within days of him taking delivery , both superstars were in great heart during the early weeks , Jones 's infectious enthusiasm extending to initiating some dumbfounded team mates in the incomprehensible fielding routines practised by the Australians . |
| 14 | It is generous of him to give Daniele an out . |
| 15 | The idea of him stealing Mrs Gotobed 's Will was a bit of what Hepzibah would call ‘ Albert 's Old Nonsense . ’ |
| 16 | On the raised dais in front of him lay Sylvie 's coffin . |
| 17 | It was typical of him to see politics in ethical terms . |
| 18 | The other thing they mean is , when my partner has grown up sufficiently for me to believe there 's a fair chance of him changing nappies and giving the 2am feed . |
| 19 | On the other side of him sat Liam , bewildered and broken . |
| 20 | One 's abiding memory is of a hand-off with the impact of the proverbial kicking mule and reminiscences of him triggered talk of how much less use is made of that weapon these days . |
| 21 | In front of him stood Bigwig , sodden wet , undaunted , single-minded — the very picture of decision . |
| 22 | On the doorstep in front of him stood Joanne Menzies , alone . |
| 23 | On either side of him stood Eugene Murphy , Liam 's father and the children 's grandad , and Tim , the barman , in his best clothes . |
| 24 | A third letter , some nine months after he had left home in Glasgow , told of him having joined.a cargo ship as an ordinary seaman . |
| 25 | It might have been slightly more gracious of him to pay tribute to the work of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in getting this universal and non-discriminatory register of arms transfers recom-mended to the Assembly . |
| 26 | Lepine had accompanied the cai who had lured him and his brother to the plantation eighteen months earlier , but despite the feeling of hatred the sight of him inspired Dong scarcely gave the recruiter a second glance . |
| 27 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 28 | His behaviour , the things he 'd said , trying with her new knowledge of him to find flaws in his reasoning , and then wondered drearily why she bothered . |
| 29 | ‘ He is not my lover , ’ Ruth stated emphatically , ‘ but yes , I am upset at the thought of him spending time with Maria Luisa . |
| 30 | The fact that he had been unaware that there was a problem at all , and that people had grievances they felt unable to air to him privately , was , perhaps , a measure of him losing touch since moving office to the houseboat . |