Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran stared after him with tears in her eyes and an ache in her heart . |
| 2 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's hope so , ’ she said , and told them that her parents were furious because Josh , her grandmother 's lodger , had left all his money and possessions to Kate and not even mentioned her grandmother who had looked after him for years . |
| 4 | The pilgrims went in after him in groups of five or six at a time . |
| 5 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 6 | One boy , seeing an adult , rushed towards him with intestines hanging out and screaming ‘ Help me ! |
| 7 | A child , a small , dark , hooded figure was sweeping across the grass towards him with hands joined as if in prayer . |
| 8 | The mother also agreed to place a small plate of Ben 's favourite food ( chunks of cheese and pieces of apple ) in front of him at meal-times but then not to watch him eat by getting on with a job in the kitchen . |
| 9 | They overtook him when he was n't expecting it ; they pulled up at the side of the road and trapped him behind them ; they got in front of him at traffic-lights and then decided to turn right . |
| 10 | For Hunt , an added discomfort was that his team-mate Mass was now ahead of him on points . |
| 11 | Aline sees more of him on nights in Marcus . ’ |
| 12 | It was an understood thing that Mr Joe , Sir , as he was now — and that was hard to take in — was still in shock , for he walked about like someone in a dream and would stand staring in front of him for minutes on end . |
| 13 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 14 | Colin James Rendell FCA of Queen Elizabeth Cottage , Broadtown , Swindon , Wilts having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) ( a ) in that he in Swindon between 19 December 1991 and 18 August 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with enquiries made of him by solicitors in respect of the taxation affairs of a deceased client ( b ) and in that he in Swindon between 6 July 1992 and 22 July 1992 failed to honour an undertaking to contact solicitors and having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) ( c ) in that he in Swindon between 19 December 1991 and 5 May 1992 failed to comply with a direction of the Disciplinary Committee made under Bye-law 83(c) that he obtain advice from the Practice Referrals Service . |
| 15 | Gilmour says a confession was beaten out of him by police . |
| 16 | She had read about him in the newspapers , seen him once or twice on television , seen photographs of him in magazines . |
| 17 | It was an odd fact that they spoke of him in terms of discovering a new talent — a new star who had emerged quite suddenly — and apparently unaware that he was a veteran of a string of past films . |
| 18 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
| 19 | Manjiku 's pale , pale , he ca n't bear the light of the sun , it burns his pale skin , his pale flesh , it leaches the life out of him in blisters and wens . |
| 20 | he was just like the pictures of him in books : yellowish-white bones in a long brown robe . |
| 21 | Shadows drifted past him like fronds , dappled with refracted sunlight , tied with thin streams of bubbles as he sank slowly into the welcoming depths of the ocean , under the incurious eye of the great Whale … . |
| 22 | In the following April John II , fearing that the dauphin , Charles , who was duke of Normandy , was plotting against him with members of the Navarrese party and others , went secretly to Rouen and , as the dauphin was entertaining his guests to dinner , arrested some and had them led away to immediate execution . |
| 23 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 24 | Indeed , the internal acrimony levelled against him at times has been such that , when his departure was announced , the best that some figures within the health network could say was ‘ we 'll be very happy to wish him goodbye ’ . |
| 25 | His psychological profile is revealing , he was abandoned by his mother , brought up in care , he 's been in and out of detention centre 's and prison , there 's a whole list of complaints against him from women for physical abuse . |
| 26 | The press reported that Sununu blamed his recent difficulties on a vendetta being pursued against him by enemies within the White House , elements of the liberal press and Jewish groups opposed to his Lebanese ancestry and his calls for even-handedness in US policy towards the Middle East . |
| 27 | But he says just as worrying , is the string of unjustified complaints made against him by members of the public . |
| 28 | But these people 's delusions do not convince me that Satan is a fiction , and psychological arguments against him by psychiatrists have no philosophical bite that carries conviction . |
| 29 | The three vices which he hated most , according to Isaacson , were usury , simony and sacrilege ; and he suffered much through suits brought against him by men to whom he had refused livings . |
| 30 | By section 2(8) a statement by a person in response to a requirement imposed under the section may only be used in evidence against him in proceedings for making a false or misleading statement or in proceedings for some other offence where in giving evidence he makes an inconsistent statement . |