Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 2 | Her thighs were well spread , her back arched , and her backside was thrust out towards him like some amorous baboon . |
| 3 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 4 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 5 | ( I think of him in some tropical Valhalla , rejoined with Arsenio . |
| 6 | Wandering aimlessly down one of the grim , draughty passageways of the castle , with Ranulf trailing behind him like some morose dog , Corbett almost bumped into Benstede and his strange body-servant , Aaron . |
| 7 | He squeezed Corbett 's arm , ‘ Take care , Master Clerk , ’ and continued on his way , his servant padding behind him like some silent dark shadow . |
| 8 | It was a considerable risk ; he knew perfectly well that Graham Moloney would certainly disagree with him with some violence . |
| 9 | I think the Algerians have been angry with him for some time and are prepared to let Polisario have a free hand . ’ |
| 10 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 11 | Or — and this more horrible idea had been very obscurely with him for some time — how had he dared to entertain it ? — perhaps Marcus — Marcus had spoken of evil yearnings , of a crime , perhaps committed already , perhaps in a dream — No , that was unthinkable , impossible . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 13 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 14 | A member of the mathematics advisory team was invited by the headteacher to work in the school and while it was not compulsory , it was assumed that every teacher would work with him at some stage . |
| 15 | The last thing she wanted , she said , was to live with him in some godforsaken bog , cut off from relatives and shops . |
| 16 | Her heart gave a little lurch as she thought about running into him at some time , which she was bound to do . |
| 17 | He walked forward into the middle of the nave , and stood looking straight before him at some point above the high altar . |
| 18 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 19 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 20 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 21 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 22 | He used to visit the factory rather late in the afternoon and , if I knew he was coming , I would wait there for him under some pretext . |
| 23 | Until the age of seven , Nicholas had received a treat every year on the Feast Day of his patron ; and from the age of ten he grew to know that the day would generally be marked for him in some way or another — in many different ways , although not every year — until , of course , his wife Marian died . |
| 24 | Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents . |
| 25 | She only knew that he was very serious and that this was important to him for some reason . |
| 26 | I do n't understand the details , but apparently Mrs Danby got her lawyer on to him about some financial thing . |
| 27 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 28 | Former Northern Telecom Ltd chief and alumnus of Burroughs Corp , Unisys Corp and IBM Corp itself , Paul Stern is now firm favourite in the betting on the next chief executive of IBM after the Wall Street Journal disclosed that there are strong objections to him from some influential IBM executives — if he 's got those people against him , he must be the right man for the job . |
| 29 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 30 | I was never consciously frightened of him and felt close to him and was regarded as a favourite child to him in some ways . |